MARLBOROUGH SOUNDS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1216, 26 August 1911, Page 14

MARLBOROUGH SOUNDS.

Sir,— Travelling through many parts of New Zealand, viewing tho grandeur, of tho country from a tourist's point of view, it appeared to me how near .to l.lio city of Wellington is to Iks found an ideal summer resort—Pclorns Sound—which Nature has provided with beautiful secluded bays aud bold water to provide ample sport and sea bathing for not. only the tourist but the invalids. This couploll with an ideal climate should appeal In tho Wellington folk to Miciiro for that city o. s-Hn centrally situated mid within a, reasonable distance of the ■ port, and,.

build a first-class tourist resort, and if' carried out on proper lines will attract a very largo percentage of'the tourists who visit New Zealand. Apparently little csr no Hi-ought by the. residents of Jlnriborough is directed to populariso what Nature has given her, and tho question is asked: What is the cause of tho apparent neglect? Is it want of energy, enterprise, or want of confidence in the district by tho residents, or is it the same old story, "Wo don't think it would pay"? This talo has been told of many tourist resorts, but some day the tables will bo turned when a far-seeing man comes along, and, with capital to work on business lines, "scoops tho pool," and then who would have thought it ? Such things happen, ami for Cook's tourists it is to bo hoped will happen in Marlborough to open to the colony a place not known except as a possible naval base. .Waku up Jlarlborough!—! am, etc., KABOBI.