TOURIST DEPARTMENT.
A PROFITABLE YEAR. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, May 26. In the course of an interview, tho Hon. T. Melvenzie stated that the Tourist DexJa.vtment had had a most successful year and that a good number of the country's resources had been turned into profit. Up to the end of last year the department would show a net profit of between £OOOO and. £'7ooo. At present he was anxious to do some more work in connection with Mount Cook and also to link up tho road systems of the cast and west coasts by a track over the mountains from the Hermitage to Copland Valley. When that was done lie believed that it would form the grandest tourist road in the world and the link required would not be a long one. though somewhat difficult. Huts were being built 011 both sides and with but a modest, expenditure he expected very good results.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14210, 27 May 1910, Page 5
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154TOURIST DEPARTMENT. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14210, 27 May 1910, Page 5
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