TELEGRAMS. ATTRACTIONS OF LAKE BRUNNER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 74, 27 March 1912, Page 3

TELEGRAMS. ATTRACTIONS OF LAKE BRUNNER.

POINTS OF HISTORIC INTEREST. [BT TZLEfIBA-EH— SPICIAL TO IBS FOBX.J CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The local office of the Tourist Department ie making an effort to encourage tourists to go to Lake Biunner, which is becoming more easily accessible as the Midland railway advances. Th«s Lake has a shore line of neaily forty miles, with numerous lovely Days all wooded to the water's edge, and three rivers and numerous streams discharge into it. A peculiaiOfeature about thelake is that, while it has to receive the water from a vast area of mountain country, it has only one outlet— the Arnold River — which flows down into tho Grey, and it is therefore surmised that it has a subterranean outlet. This is generally supposed to be on th<> West or seaward side, where its waters reach the depth of 680 ft. Therb are many places of historical interest to visit. At Pa Point are to be found the remains of a very fine Maori pa, which was erected by the local Natives as a defence against the raids*" of Te Rauparaha. Close by is the tree on which Brunner, after v/hom the lak/s was named, and his party carved their names (which are still visible) when in the early sixties they were exploring the district. Although the carving was quite fresh when the deserted camp was found by the late Air. George Roberts and J his party, who went in search of the missing men, they were never heard of again, and it is surmiujd thai they must either have fallen victims to the Maoris or had attempted to cross the lake in a "dug-out" and been drowned. Further round the lake is the spot where the old diggers used to camp when on their way between Canterbury and We6tland.