SIGNPOSTS IN FIORDLAND

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27147, 17 September 1953, Page 10

SIGNPOSTS IN FIORDLAND

AMERICAN DESIGNS ADOPTED

MATERIALS TO BE STONE AND LOGS "The Press" Special Service

INVERCARGILL, September 16. Signposts, based on designs used in the national parks of America, are to be erected in Fiordland. They will be something completely new to New Zealand.

With the increased tourist traffic to Fiordland, authorities consider it is time that, in keeping with the general policy of publicising toe area, placards and signs containing information should be erected. With this in mind, the staff of the Lands and Survey Degartment, Invercargill, set out to find le most suitable method and the most fitting material. Its decision combines novelty with knowledge. The idea was taken from photographs of signs erected in America. These, with slight modification, have been modelled to suit Fiordland conditions.

Most of the signposts will be built of stone, constructed pylon-style, with panels showing the name of the park and giving information about particular sections of it. Others will be built of logs. Rustic-type map stands will also be erected at Te Anau, Manapouri, and Milfor i.

The main entrance to Fiordland, at Boyd’s Bush, about 30 miles from Te Anau <on the Milford road, will be marked by stone structures on either side of the’road.

As a further guide to tourists, maps of toe area will be placed in hotels and accommodation houses near the park, and in the Milford. Hotel, the tourist accommodation house at Cascade Creek, and in stores and launches in the area.

The scheme has been approved by the National Parks Authority, Wellington, the body controlling all national parks in New Zealand., The construction of the. signs will start soon.