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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 51, 23 November 1928, Page 17

TONGARIRO NATIONAL PARK We are now able to announce that a contract for the erection of the new Chateau has been let to the Fletcher Construction Co., Auckland, for the sum of over £70,000, and the i building will be completed by December, 1929. In the meantime a comfortable lodge will be erected, and this will be opened for this I coming Christmas (1928). Comfortable accommodation will be obtainable at the lodge i at the rate of 16/6 a day. A married couple and staff will be installed, and visitors can be 1 assured of first-class attention. I In the past it has been the custom of tourists to hire the mountain huts and bring their I own equipment, but although this arrangement will still be in vogue with the old hubs, it will f no longer be necessary for visitors to The Lodge to bring their equipment. For the f benefit of those using the Whakapapa Huts and to save the inconvenience of bringing and cooking their own food, meals will be obtainable at moderate cost. Arrangements are being made for a Motor Service, which will convey' tourists from , the National Park Railway Station to the lodge. .Write for our Booklet on Tongariro ' National Park. Full particulars from the—- — , .. a „ TONGARIRO PARK TOURIST CO., LTD., Proprietors, P.O. Box 226, TIMARU. -r' THE “HERMITAGE,” MOUNT COOK | ,| THE WHITE STAR HOTEL SWITZERLAND OF THE SOUTH 'll ' ' ‘ If A holiday packed to the brim with I Lake Wakatipu - Southern Lakes Novelty and ' Alpine Scenery. • . . x •-x x a -x 1 Jo- r n r Jxt r n • Grand Motor Tour—Timaru-Hermitage-Queenstown—embraces . After a recent visit to Switzerland Sir James Parr formed the following Now Zealand’s finest lake and mountain scenery—a host of rugged snowopiruon:— I can forsee the time, not very far distant when mountain sports capped peal^_rocky mounta i n passes—sparkling lakes—the famous fertile “ . - WIU conatltute a very appreciable feature of New Zealand fruit di3tr icte of Central Otago—the historic remains of the gold rush periods, lire. Ihe Dominion is yet a young country, and this phase awaits development. v I was talking to a Swiss guide, who had been in the' Dominion, and his com- It is the Gem of the South Island Tours, was as he indicated his surroundings, " Mount Cook leaves all these ” W , a „ Proprielo „ o f , he While Star Hotel, Q uae „ tow „. wlticll offa „ “ “ Thousands of feet above worry level." ‘ the Wof service mA attention. MOUNT COOK MOTOR CO., LTD., Proprietors, TIMARU. 3 MOUNT COOK MOTOR CO., LTD., TIMARU. “Three Gems of New Zealand Scenic Resorts” Full Particulars and Bookings: Mount Cook Motor Co. Ltd., 17 Grey Street, Wellington ; N.Z. Government Tourist Department and Thos. Cook & Son,

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