Editing Naracoorte Caves National Park (section)

===National Pleasure Resort===
In 1916, the control of the portion of the forest reserve which contained many of the caves and which consisted of about {{convert| 50 |acre|ha|order=flip}} of land was transferred from the Department of Woods and Forests to the Immigration, Publicity and Tourist Bureau who would manage it as a national pleasure resort under the ''National Pleasure Resort Act 1914'' until 1972. The change of control was gazetted on 1 March 1917.<ref name="SAGG-1917">{{cite web|last1=STYLES|first1=A. W.|title=GRANT OF NARACOORTE CAVES AS A PUBLIC PLEASURE RESORT, &c|url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1917/11/368.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210823111222/http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1917/11/368.pdf |archive-date=2021-08-23 |url-status=live|website=The South Australian Government Gazette|publisher=South Australian Government|access-date=30 March 2018|page=368|date=1 March 1917}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article79773016 |title=THE NARRACOORTE CAVES. |newspaper=[[The Border Watch]] |volume=LV |issue=5463 |location=South Australia |date=22 July 1916 |access-date=26 February 2018 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref name=NPWact/> The national pleasure resort's development into "an important regional tourist destination was greatly assisted by the discovery in 1969 in Victoria Cave of the largest known Australian Pleistocene vertebrate fossil cave deposit".<ref name=mp/>