Japanese To Visit

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31135, 11 August 1966, Page 14

Japanese To Visit

Two parties of Japanese will arrive in Christchurch on August 14 on their way to Mount Cook. A group of six from the Tokyo Fukuhara Film Company is making skiing films in Australia and New Zealand and will visit Mount Cook and Queenstown. A party of five from “Yama To Keik Oku,” a Japanese monthly magazine on ski-ing, mountaineering and hiking, will visit Mount Cook. Rotorua, Waitomo and Auckland.

the committee now intends that that area and the Ferrymead park be linked by the i reconstructed railway and by a new road to join Bridle I Path road and Truscotts road, j The new road would carry! trams and trolley buses be-' tween the two sites. Although the development of the science museum will be the major part of the scheme, the committee’s immediate aim is to raise funds to buy land and build the first of a series of buildings. These will eventually in-, elude halls of science and| space, transport, communications and community services, agriculture and food technology, and industry and power. The steering committee hopes to include a six-storey J reproduction of Canterbury’s first windmill and to lay out the extensive grounds as a permanent outdoor exhibition ■ with its own railway station ! and with room for the erection or re-erection of large examples of structural and mechanical engineering and the display of large machines, | including aircraft. The association has a small j pilot museum open at week- j ends at Garvins road. Hornby. Mr G. L. Evans, chairman of the steering committee, said that progress was restricted by the amount of money available from Heathcote County Council funds and the limited reI sources of the member organi isations. j Voluntary work was being i done on the site to bring the I land about 2ft above flood I level. This would require ; about 12,000 cubic yards of I soil.