THE MOUNTAIN

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 41, 26 September 1928, Page 8

THE MOUNTAIN

EAST COMMITTEE MEETS. SUBSIDY FOR LOADING. The East Committee of the Egmont National Park Board met last, night, when therei were present; Messrs J. 0. Robins (chairman), J. T. Belcher, W. L. Kennedy, T. R. Anderson, and P. Thomson. The secretary reported that he had written to the secretary of the Board notifying that the committee woilid shortly make a. claim for subsidy ou a sum of £l3O odd, being the proceeds from the Jubilee Queen Carnival and donations from the Stratford Borough and County Councils. r l bis claim would lie for pound for pound subsidy, out of the sum of £SOO provided by the Government as subsidy or donations from local bodies and others, tire money to bo used in work on roads and tracks within the Park. The secretary'’ of the Board has replied that the matter would be considered whew the subsidy came before the Board. The chairman said the Hons. McLeod and' .Williams had made it plain when they visited Stratford that the subsidised money must not be used on the bouses; but must be used on roads and tracks. It was ‘decided that the societal y should write again to the Board ou Hie matter, and including Mr Burrell’s donation’ of £lO. R AILWAY EXCURSION. The chairman said! that om the occasion of Hie last railway exclusion to Dawson Falls, via Hawera, the Hawcra people issued a pamphlet, which wag sent to Wellington and distributed to those making the excursion. The pamphlet gave inhumation about Hawera and the Mountain, and also arrangements for the excursionists. The same thing should be done in connection with: the excursion to Stratford in .February next and it was not too early to get going. He saw that the Alpine Club was helping in connection with Sunday’s excursion, l , and no doubt they would dot the same as regards! the excursion to Stratford. After a short discussion the matter was deferred; for a month. CARETAKER’S REPORT. The caretaker (Mr A. Haldane) reported: The weather during the last three months has been very had, and for the last two months it has rained almost incessantly, making it impossible to get very much work done. The road has been closed 1 since the beginning of June because of the; bad state of some of the ruts, and consequently we have bad very few visitors. Although very little has been done/ to the road of late, it is: in fairly good order, and with a week or so of fine weather to dry it up should be quite passable for car traffic. I have cut back the scrub and fern from the side of the water-table and cleaned them out again from the bottom gate as far as the look-out (two miles) and have shifted a lot of the dead timber which was IvW in the tables and bin the side of the vend. I have also cleared another patch of scrub on the left of the top house, about aiu acre and a half to two acres in area, and spent some time on the mountain track just below the Pla teau. Mr Kennedy said he noticed that there had been a, block on the Dawson Falls road, find bo asked if anything of the sort had happened on the road l to Stratford house. The chairman said he had not beard of any trees coming down. Any branches which it was thought might be blown down had been cut down. Mr Haldane bad reported that owing to the water-tables being kept io clean the road had been kept in verygood order and would be in first-class order after a, fffiort spell of dry weather.