Port Hills walk

Press, 2 April 1979, Page 5

Port Hills walk

The Summit Road Protection Society will hold a scenic walk on the Port Hills, leaving from Victoria Park, on Sunday morning, April 29. Participants will be taken from the park into the bush below Sugar Loaf, then to the Sign of the Kiwi and to the Coronation Hill walk. From there the. walkers will go to Hoon Hay Park and Marley’s Hill, where there are early stone quarries, and back down the track above Dyers Pass Road to Victoria Park and the Sign of the Takahe. The publicity officer of the society (Mr J. W. Jameson) said that at a “leisurely pace” the walk would take about four to five hours. The society held such

walks in the Port Hills twice a year to give the public a chance to see the work being done in the recreation areas of the hills as well as giving them an appreciation of the potential of the Summit Road area “from the point of view of its total protection and development as a recreational park.” There were now more than 120 ha of scenic reserve in the Port Hills. Over the years schoolchildren and other groups had planted “thousands and thousands” of trees in the reserves. Members of the society worked voluntarily with the Christchurch City Council’s reserves department to maintain the reserves.