CLEARING HEAPHY TRACK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 18 December 1936, Page 6

CLEARING HEAPHY TRACK

WORK MAY BEGIN SOON BULLER COUNCIL TO SEEK RENEWAL OF GRANT Men will be put on at once to clear the Heaphy track between Karamea and Collingwood if the Buffer County Council is successful in obtainig the renewal of a grant of £IOO made for the work when Mr J. Bitchener was Minister for Public Works. A decision to make fresh application for the money was made by the council this week, when correspondence dealing with the track was under consideration.

Mr A. J. Harvey wrote reporting that he was starting work in clearing the Karamea end of the track and the Collingwood County Council advised that the Public Works District Engineer at Nelson (Mr T. A. Johnstone) and the Commissioner of Crown Lands at Nelson (Mr A. F. Waters) proposed to make a trip over the track towards the end of January. Councillor W. R. Simpson said that once people began to use the track the need for a road would be realised. The county clerk and engineer (Mr C. F. Schadick), referring to the grant made by the previous Government, said that he had got into touch with the Hon. W. H. Mclntyre, M.L.C., with a view to his interviewing the Hon. P. C. Webb and Mr K. J. Holyoake, M.P., when in Wellington, to obtain the renewal of the grant. During the discussion, Mr Schadick spoke by telephone with the district engineer at Nelson, who said that he would support any move made by the council to obtain the grant. Councillors expressed appreciation of the interest being taken at the Collingwood end and the engineer was authorised to arrange for men to be put on clearing the track if the grant were made available.