Study Groups Use Park
Most visitors to the Arthur’s Pass National Park were the picnickers, trampers, climbers, skiers and shoot ers, but the number of visit- ’ ing ' scientific and study groups was growing and becoming an important part of the park’s public relations, according to the annual report of the park board, adopted at its meeting in Christchurch this week. About 52,000 persons visited, the park during the year, about 14,000 using the visitor information centre and museum. Because of the amount of snow, the winter rail excursions were well patronised and the number of week-end and day visitors were considerably higher than usual. The report said that the townships of Arthur’s Pass and Otira were primarily railway settlements and were not in the park, but Arthur’s Pass was serving the park so well that it waa changing in concept from a railway settlement to an alpine village directly associated with the park.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31989, 16 May 1969, Page 8
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153Study Groups Use Park Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31989, 16 May 1969, Page 8
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