MARLBOROUGH SOUNDS

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 139, 9 March 1943, Page 2

MARLBOROUGH SOUNDS

Busy Holiday Season

The Marlborough Sounds are being used as a holiday resort this summer more than ever before, the restrictions on travel in the North Island having forced many Wellington residents to arrange for holidays near at home or in the iSouth Island. The holiday season in the Sounds started arlier than usual and has continued longer. Most boarding-house keepers still have as many guests as they can accommodate. Usually business slackens in March, but this year houses have remained busy and some of them are booked up till after Easter, even though Easter is as late as it can be. Lack of staff is in some cases the factor which limits the number of guests that cau be accepted. , . , ~ The war has interfered little with the pleasures that make up a Sounds holiday. The number of pleasure trips that launches can run has been reduced somewhat by the diversion of launches to more important work. Some of the launches have been taken from their usual runs and are doing duty for the forces, and the inability of farmers to get their live stock and wool picked up by the small coastal vessels that used to call at their stations, has thrown more of this work than usual on the Sounds launches. One of the delights of a holiday in Pelorus Sound or Kenepuru Sound, the five-mile walk through the bush from Nydia Bay to Tennyson Inlet, has become less pleasant than a few years ago because of the track falling into disrepair in places. Trees having fallen over the track in several places and streams having taken possession of it in others, the pleasure of the walk has been reduced for those who arc not fairly agile. A few days’ work by a bushman, however, would restore it.