CASCADE PARK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22987, 15 March 1938, Page 15

CASCADE PARK

access road scheme Some w»;eks ago the suggestion was made to tie Minister of Public Works, the Hon. I*. Semple, by the New Zealand Tour.st League that the road from Swanson leading to the Cascade Kauri Park, which lies in the valley below the Waitakcre Dam, should be Properly formed and metalled. It was Jfged that as the Government contrihalf ol tlie cost of £27,000 for the purchase of this valuable forest, as the area could be made into of the fhvst picnic grounds in the Province, assistance toward the road might be provided from the Employment Pron.otion Fund. ♦i. " p !- v as now een rcce, ' vr d the a;iinister in which ho gives the estimate of the cost of doing the proposed J or k as CBOOO, This expenditure he e £ not think in warranted at present, t • understands that very fine views ®f this bush will be obtained from the Scenic Drive now under contraction. He points out that only between, two and three miles of recontructed formation and metalling will e required to giv.s access to the valley ttom the northern end of the scenic fire where it drops down from Puke|™tekeo to the Swanson-Te Henga