Holiday touragram

Press, 24 December 1985, Page 10

Holiday touragram

Gladiator has focused on landmarks around the North Island coastline for this month’s touragram, which is designed to fans busy over the ChristmasNew Year period.

The contest will close on January 20 and no entries will be opened until after that date.

They will then be marked at random; the first six correct entrants will receive gift vouchers valued at ?6 (three will be held for entries from outlying areas). Results and the names of winners will appear in Tuesday Travel on January 28. The words are hidden in the touragram in a random manner and may appear horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

They can be read from left to right or from right to left, and up or down. Some letters may be common to two or more words.

Each word has a corresponding clue. When located, the words should be ringed neatly with a ballpoint pen and listed to correspond with the numbers of clues.

Entries should be ad; dressed to Touragram, C/Travel Editor, P.O. Box 1005, CChristchurch.

first time needed to understand more about the culture they were going to. Japanese travellers were used to guides apologising for bad weather. New Zealanders took no responsibility for the weather. “When we say ‘l’m sorry’ it’s not that we are apologising for the weather but we are sympathetic to the traveller,” he said. “And we say ‘sorry to have kept you waiting’ even after a moment's delay to feel at one with our guests. “I’m not suggesting New Zealand hospitality industry people should do this. But they could understand the cultural differences.”

1 — A bay for most times. 2— On the East Cape where the arum lily joins with a point. 3 — We are in garb suited to this place of spirits. 4 — While this point is a cape for an unseen polar star. 5 — Gives scale to 6. 6 — A very showy bay. 7 — Did cars once break records over this “144.84” kilometre stretch? 8 — Are U moaning over “plenty of sharks in pretty fish base.” I 9 — Captain Cook named islands after fish but, perhaps, will become a peaceful resting place for a rainbow. 10 — The Maoris called this Whangaroa island Mahinepua or, sometimes, Ririwha. 11 — Perhaps the most substantial bay on North Auckland coast. 12 — Cape and headland named by Captain Cook after Sir Percy, but Maoris knew it as Rakau Mangamanga. 13 — Harbour and beach - “a bay where the morepork is heard.” 14 — A rather “clucky” type of island looking after some of . . .

15 — . . . Mother Carey’s best, or Matotiri. 16 — Many a tale I ghost write in an old cove south of Rodney. 17 — Not a Nebraskan city but an eastern bay. 18 — Summer resort in the place of rewa trees. 19 — North shore but no Aussie male this. 20 — Tolaga river to the Pacific. 21 — Does this train go to triple cone gulf treat? 22 — “Sacred” gulf island fortress was scene of 5000 strong Victorian picnics. 23 — “Sea Wolf’ escaped in 1917 from island of Ihenga. 24 — “Ebbing water” is largest of gulf islands. 25 — Best hell is thunderous surf. 26 — Where Lion Rock rules the surf. 27 — Western beach famed for toheroas.

28 — Black beach where an old lag ran after a Crimean commander-in-chief! 29 — The Tainui canoe may have been first harbour user — also its last resting place? 30 — Anchor stone still at Tainui landing place. Here was last artillery shot fired in Maori wars. 31 — No old man river this. 32 — Beautiful beaches and coastal scenery feature of this Coromandel harbour. 33 —. Is East Cape river an “isolated place”? 34 — “A king of scond Paradise,” said Captain Cook’s artist of “Taraki”. 35 — Bay for the eagle-eyed or prominient Aussie. 36 — A cape for those wanting a ransom. 37 — Doing this to a head could result in a chill. 38 — Love of carved bird-like figure is almost a mania.

39 — Racer drives real tractor in New Year’s Day obstacle race on generally inaccessible southern beach. 40 — A sound it is ifpt, nor a fiord, on northern shores.