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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 106, 29 January 1940, Page 9

A print of the architect’s perspective sketch of the memorial cairn, to be erected on the summit of the Haast Pass to commemorate the linking of Otago and Westland by road was received at a meeting of the Automobile Association (Southland). A circular letter from the Vincent County Council stated that the proposal to erect the memorial was first suggested by the Westland County Council, and had received the enthusiastic support of local bodies and public organizations. With the idea of keeping the cost of the project within reasonable limits local materials, such as stone, totara logs, and ishingle, were being used as far as possible. The chief cost was the labour of erection by skilled masons. The estimated cost of the memorial and an adjoining shelter for tourists was £350.

You wouldn’t sit down and write to 40,000 people to sell or buy anything, would you? No —because it’s easier to write only 15 words and send it with a shilling to “The Dominion.”