NATIONAL PARK
INCREASED POPULARITY need foe hostel The need of making more provision for accommodating visitors in the longariro National Park is referred to in the annual report of the Ruapehu Ski It is stated in the report that improvements to Bruce Road, which is now metalled right up to the Whakapapa huts, have had the effect of making the spot a favourite rendezvous for motorists, who are now commencing to appreciate the attrae tions of the resort. It is important, however, that sufficient accommodation should be available for people who desire to spend a week or so in the mountain air. Until a hostel is erected the majority are shut out of the park, as they cannot, like the young and energetic, make use of the present huts. Even now, all the accommodation is taken up for the various holiday periods. The Park Board has now decided as soon as sufficient funds are i.n hand to erect a small hostel at Whakapapa together with a number of stnall cottages for the accommodation of mountaineering parties. The site is bo >ing surveyed and it is hopad to start construction next summer- The Rangataua Alpine Club proposes to build a hut on the southern side of Ruapehu.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19918, 13 August 1927, Page 6
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206NATIONAL PARK Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19918, 13 August 1927, Page 6
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