BURKE’S PASS HAS QUAINT MEMORIAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18149, 7 May 1927, Page 1

BURKE’S PASS HAS QUAINT MEMORIAL.

The inspiring inscription on this monument at Burke’s Pass, on the lip of the Mackenzie ba in, arrests the attention of practically every motorist. The road in front of the monument is a continual parking place while motor-

ing parties read. The slab of stone was erected in 1917 by Air T. D. Burnett, M.P. The inscription reads:— “To put on record that Michael John Burke, a graduate of Dublin University and the first occupier of Raincliff Station, entered this pass, known to the Maoris as Te Kopi Opihi, in 1555.

“ O ye who enter the portaln of the Mackenzie to found homes, take the word of a child of the misty gorges, and plant forest trees for your lives; so shall your mountain facings and river flats be preserved to your children's children and for evermore. “ This pass is 2200 feet above sea level.”