The Summit Road.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18927, 16 February 1927, Page 8

The Summit Road.

In another column we again call attention to the design of the Summit Road Trustees to raise funds to complete the well-known rest-house, The Sign of the Takuhe, which is so well known to the many thousands of people who on Sundays and holidays turn to the hills for recreation and comfort. Although' it has rather a quaint appearance of being the ruin of a fine stone building, the rest-house in its present state is anything but that. It is a beautiful piece of work, almost a model of good taste and good workmanship in honest stone and heavy timber, and when completed, according to the Trustees' plans, it will be a building of which the City can be proud. The position of the Trustees at the present time is this: that if they can raise by public subscription the money required—about £3ooo— will feel assured of the safety Of the Cracroft Hill reserve, that splendidly placed look-out north of the rest-house, from which the traveller can, and from which thousands of wayfarers do, enjoy a thrilling panorama of mountain, plain, and sea. Few cities in the world can offer its dwellers such a playground and look-out within from ten to twenty minutes (according as you go by motor-ear or by tram) from the business centre. Unless the public subscribes the money required, there will be a risk th«t the Cracroft Hill reserve will be lost, and we are sure that there are nearly as many people who would regret that as people who would lament the loss of, say, Hagley Park. We do not know how far the various public bodies of the City can go in voting money for the fund which is being raised by the Trustees, but whatever authority they may have for giving assistance ought to be generously nsed. They ought at least to give their moral support to a project the failure of which everyone who has given it a thought would regard as a calamity. We are receiving donations at our office, and shall be glad to acknowledge any sum, large or small, that may come in.