ROAD TO SOUNDS
HOPES OF MINISTER A REPORT SHORTLY (By Telegraph —Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, 27th March. A scheme favoured by the Minister in charge of the Tourist Department (the Hon.°A. Hamilton) for opening up the Sounds and the southern part of the West Coast to tourist traffic from overseas and from the north is still being investigated by the Public Works Department, and Mr Hamilton hopes to receive shortly a comprehensive report on its practicability. In an interview to-day, Mr 'Hamilton said that he still hoped to see his dreams realised. It would he costly to build the roads he had in mind, but he was sure they would prove of great advantage to the South Island and to the country as a whole.
The first scheme, the completion of t,he To Anau-Milford Sound road up Hollyford Valley and .by tunnel through Gertrude Saddle was definitely within the range of possibility. Mr Hamilton said that ho had hopes of pushing on this work if funds permitted and if reports from the district; were favourable. - : U
Mr John Wood, assistant engineer to (lie Public Works Department, was at present in tlie Milford region in company with a party of surveyors, who had for the last three or four months been planning a tunnel road, and Mr Hamilton expected a report in the near future.
The second scheme, tlie construction of a road down tlie TTollyford Valley to tlie West Coast and up the coast to Hokitika, was a more ambitious project, but it appeared to be quite practicable.
When Mr Wood and Mr T. M. Ball, of the Public Works Department at Dunedin, made their flight over this region early in the month they had found little to prevent tlie building of such a road either along the coast itself or further inland.
Mr Hamilton said that the engineers had made a comprehensive survey of tho district from the air, flying low over the trees in some parts. No full report had yet been made on the subject, and Mr Hamilton, said lie was hoping to get in touch with Mr Wood in tiie south.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 29 March 1934, Page 2
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354ROAD TO SOUNDS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 29 March 1934, Page 2
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