Grant for national park facilities
Wellington reporter A cheque for nearly 1500,000 has been handed by the Tourist and Publicity Department to the Minister of Lands, Mr Wetere, to help pay for tourism facilities: in national parks and reserves.
Grants have been made to start work on berthing facilities and a day-visitor centre at Milford Sound
($130,000), to improve and extend three hiits on the Milford Track ($150,000), to replaced Bark Hut in the Abel Tasman National Park ($70,000), and for restoration of the Otago Goldfields Park ($51,000). This gift was in recognition of the role of national parks and reserves in tourism, said the Minister of Tourism, Mr Mixire.
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Press, 21 December 1985, Page 13
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