The New Zealand Walkway system is a concept designed to provide a network of tracks giving the public safe, unimpeded foot access to the countryside, and ultimately to establish tracks traversing New Zealand from Cape ...

Because we are dealing with two quite different types of walkways, two systems were used, sometimes individually, sometimes in combination. With the rural walkways we adopted an approach of stationing the interviewer at ...

The Manawatu Sports Stadium was officially opened by the Prince of Wales, on April 2nd, 1981 and today is the largest stadium in New Zealand. It was built to replace a cattle pavilion of a similar size which was burnt ...

Problems are heightened for school leavers when it appears little leisure provision is exclusively geared towards young adults. The public sector makes no special provision for young adults once out of school. If however they ...

Nowadays leisure, and consequently recreation, is an accepted and important part of life. Recreation itself is fostered and encouraged because it is regarded as having several attributes conducive to the development of a ...

Unemployment appears to be a permanent feature of Western society including New Zealand. It is unlikely that economic progress will allow for full employment in New Zealand. Technological progress also likely to reduce ...

Much information exists in written form on various facilities within the County, particularly about the parks, riverways, lakes, mountain ranges and skifields. The aim of this Study is to collate this information, alongside ...

This dissertation looks at the users of the St. James Walkway over the summer of 1981-82. The first chapter provides a background to the study, to the St. James area, and to the walkway's concept. Chapter Two describes the ...

In recent years there has been a growing awareness of the benefits of recreation services for disabled populations. This has manifested itself in a growth of adaptive programmes and the number of personel in the field. ...