TOURIST RESORTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17911, 15 October 1932, Page 3

TOURIST RESORTS

DEVELOPMENT NEEDED - 4* ' WAIKAREMOANA AND MORERE (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Pointing out that most of the previous speakers in the Budget debate had taken opportunity of criticising the National Expenditure Commission’s proposals insofar as they affected their own respective districts, Mr. D. W. Coleman (Gisborne) joined the procession of critics when he referred in the House of Representatives to the commission’s suggestion that the Waikaremoana and Mor ere health and tourist resort facilities should be limited or closed down altogether. “The commission recommends the dosing down of the. hostel at Waikaremoana. 1 think that that would be a pity. Waikaremoana is a splendid scenic resort: and, after all, I do not think that we should look at these matters so much from an £ s. d. point of view,” said the member for Gisborne. “Possibly that resort has been to a certain extent an expense; but I believe that if certain facilities were given it could be made a paying proposition. For instance, deputations have waited upon the Minister asking that a part of the land round about there should be allocated for camping sites, and that another part should be set apart that, people could build shacks similar to those built at seaside resorts, and that a rental should be charged for the land. If,something like that were done at Waikaremoana, I am sure that conditions would be improved as far as £ s. d. is concerned. “Then there are the Morere hot springs. I am dealihg with these two reports because they are adjacent to my own district. Certainly the annual loss at Morere is onlv £174: but T believe Morere could be made self-supporting if a swimming pool were constructed; this could be done at very little cost. The pools at present are small and very well patronised; and if a swimming pool of fair si/e were constructed I have no doubt, that the small deficiency of £174 could be easily wiped out. As for Rotorua, whilst Rotorua may be rather expensive to the Government, it is one of the places that go to make New Zealand. and I am sure that if the commission’s report were nut into operation m this regard it would be a national loss. I hope the Government will not put the recommendations into operation without giving the matter earnest thought, and that it will not look at it so much from an actual’ £ s. d. point of view’.