THE NATIONAL PARK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19203, 17 December 1925, Page 10

THE NATIONAL PARK.

HOSTEL ERECTION PROBLEM. REPORTS AT MEETING. fEY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The half-yearly meeting of the Tongariro National Park Board will be held at Ohakune on Friday morning. The main item of business is consideration of the special reports relating to the erection of a hostel by private enterprise. The board at its last meeting affirmed the principle that applications should be invited for the erection of a hostel by private enterprise, and two special sub-committees were appointed, one being deputed to go into the question of a site and the other to draw up draft conditions of the necessary lease and give special attention to the class of building, minimum accommodation, tariff, etc. These reports will come forward for consideration. HT3EB FOR THE HOSTEL. ROAD ACCESS QUESTION. The need for the more rapid development of the Tongariro National Park and the provision of better road access from the principal centres of population was urged at the annual meeting of the Now Zealand Tourist League last evening. One of the points discussed was the failure of the Tongariro Park Board to establish the promised hostel, A resolution was carried regretting that another summer season had opened without a decision by the Park Board on a hostel site and without the provision of better accommodation facilities. It was further stated that the league believed that the development of this park was an essential feature in the exploitation of the scenic resources of the North Island. It was decided to ask the Main Highways Board to give consideration to the opening-up, as an all-weather road, of the Auckland-Wellington central highway to the park, via Tauinarunui. The chairman, Mr. W. J. Broad foot, said the Highways Board was very sympathetic toward the league's efforts to open up the park to the people. He had been told that the board had in hand two cuts which would shorten the road from Te Kuiti to the park, and this would give a good summer road. This would be so much gained, but a metalled road would give access all the year round.