Daily Express (Friday 29.10.1976) - RANAU, Thursday – Kundasang is to be developed into a major vegetable-producing centre catering for the needs of Sabah, Saarwak and Brunei.
A consultant is now drawing up a scheme to dam up sufficient water for irrigation purposes. Two rivers have been surveyed-the Liwagu and Mesilau.
The plan estimated cost about $3million will entail gravitional irrigation of few thousand acres of vegetable terraces to ensure year-round cultivation.
The Chief-Minister, Datuk Harris Salleh disclosed this while addressing residents at the Kundasang balai raya yesterday.
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Kundasang’s tourism protential is also to be tapped through systematic provision of facilities. A 50 room hill-top hotel to be built soon will form part of a future township designed to be the most modernistic in the State. It will be owned by the government Rural Cooperative Society.
And a standard golf course will be laid on the Pinosuk Plateau, about six miles away. Pinosuk has also been earmarked as the new headquarter for the Kinabalu National Park.
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Datuk Harris assured the people in Kundasang that all of them would be provided with adequate land for sincere agricultural development.
Later the Chief Minister received four donations totalling $1050 in aid of the Tun Fuad Foundation. The money came from the Ranau Teachers Union ($600) the Kaum Wanita in Kundasang ($300) and two individuals, Suhaimi bin Nandaran ($100) and Mohd. Salleh bin Mahar ($50).