TEMPLE BASIN JEEP TRACK

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28128, 17 November 1956, Page 13

TEMPLE BASIN JEEP TRACK

CALLING OF TENDERS FOR EXTENSION

The Arthur’s Pass National Park Board is to call tenders for the extension of the jeep track which will eventually enable wheeled transport to go close to the Canterbury University College’s hut on the Temple Basin ski field. The track has already been constructed for about half a mile from the road, and it is now proposed to take it up another 1000 feet over a distance of about a mile to the top of the bluffs. When this work has been completed, there will still be about half a mile to build. The chairman (Mr T. W. Preston) reported at a meeting of the board that the National Parks Authority had approved the project, but it could not commit itself to making finance available in advance. At a meeting in August, the board resolved to apply to the authority for finance for the track. Professor L- W. McCaskill, who represents national park boards on the authority, said that now the project was actually approved, it. would be one of the first to be considered when the authority knew what funds the Government was making available for national parks in the next financial year.