SHAW DELIGHTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 69, 22 March 1934, Page 9

SHAW DELIGHTED.

" INCOMPARABLE" CAVES. IMPRESSIONS OF WAITOMO, (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) ROTORUA, this day. After a visit to the Waitomo Oaves, Mr. George Bernard Shaw, who has arrived at Rotorua for a few days' sightseeing, said the sight in the caves was sufficient to blot out all memories of ordinary scenery. New Zealand, he said, possessed a wonderful scenic attraction in these caves, and he was surprised to hear that many New Zealanders, especially those living so close to the caves, had never seen them.

The fact that so few New Zealanders had seen the caves, Mr. Shaw said, bore out a previous remark he had made in Auckland, when he attributed to them a greater interest in what they were pleased to call "Home" than in tlieii own country. It was time New Zealanders made themselves familiar with their own country. From what he had already seen of it, they would find it worth while.

Mr. Shaw said he regarded the glowworm cave as an incomparable sight. ,He considered the descriptive pamphlets n-ave an inadequate idea of what tho caves were like. In reality he found them in advance of his expectations.