Park to be theme
The glaciers and forests of Westland National Park will be the theme of the Easter Nature Programmein the park said the chief ranger (Mr A, Cragg).Weather permitting, daily .walks .would be made to Alex Knob, the Gallery, and other places of interest. These would leave from the Franz Josef, visitor centre at 9 a.m., guided by rangers and the park naturalist The, walks were a good opportunity for visitors to ' gain an understanding of the history of the region, said Mr .Cragg. Lectures in the evenings
would show visitors Some of the more remote parts of the national park and give an outline of the movements of the park’s many glaciers, he said. “We are fortunate in having the assistance of Dr Fredrich Roethlisberger of Zurich University, Switzerland, who is comparing New Zealand’s glaciers with those of the Northern’Hemisphere,” he said. 1 , The park was. an easy day trip from Hokitika or Greymouth and there were still many vacancies in local motels and at.-the motor camp, he said-
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