Mt. Cook National Park
Sir, —The Mount Cook National Park Board is doing fine work in trying to provide for the most important visitors to the park, the New Zealanders to whom the park really belongs. The Hermitage caters for very wealthy people who seldom tramp, or climb even the lesser peaks. A new village should do much to make Mount Cook holidays practicable for increasing numbers of New Zealanders who appreciate our National Parks. Wealthy people who like a good hotel and mountain views could be satisfied by a fine hotel at the south end of Lake Pukaki, giving beautiful though distant views of Mount Cook with Pukaki in the foreground. Luxury hotels have their uses, but it is Mount Cook itself and the mountains and valleys about it that really make the nark so well worth while. Plans should not be changed in the interests of increasing bar trade at the Hermitage.— Yours, etc., ARTHUR LUSH. February 28, 1966.
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Press, Issue 30997, 1 March 1966, Page 16
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