Tourist link roads ‘not board’s concern’
Greymouth reporter
The construction of the Karamea-Collingwood and Hollyford-Cascade Valley roads was not the conern of the National Roads Board, the Director of Reading, Mr R. B. Fisher, told a combined meeting between the board and the No. 12 District Roads Council.
Dr Durham Havill, chairman of the Westland County Council, in a combined local authority submission to the Board at Greymouth said that if these roads could be built it would bring more tourists into the region, more money, and jobs.
He noted the value to the West Coast of the Haast Highway. Mr Fisher said, however, that he saw both roads as “a hell of a conservationist argument.”
“I see it as one for the councils to plan for and fight the battle. You should be preparing a good, economic case,” he said.
“We are looking here at 50 miles of new road. Look at the costs of building and maintaining it. We know already what flooding has cost us in South Westland.”
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Press, 26 July 1986, Page 2
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