"MOUNTAIN BEAUTY"

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 38, 13 August 1932, Page 20

"MOUNTAIN BEAUTY"

__, - (Ongmal) "■Stafclj, snow-cappod, busli-nnod, thovlong range of mountains hulc tho land beyond from view. Bising majestically here, dipping gracefully thoie, the Tararuas shelter tlie "Wairaiapa Plain till they join their bisteis, tho Eimutakas, and dip_down to the blue-gi-een, foam-flecked sea. "As the sun rises each morning, a pale pink flush creeps down the snowcovered mountain sides till it reaches the bush margin; but at night it is different. The snows seem to colour with the sunset clouds, till at last-their glory dies as tho sun sets. Gradually the mountains become but a purple silhou; ■'■ etto, deepening against tho evening sky! "Tho Tararuas are not grim and forbidding, but friendly and welcoming. .They, beckon you away to their busTi-liind-r^aifcl-yop- want r tsr!g6.;>l . | "': "9Pheso Ganges .are the homes; bl tKa winds;;the breezes-.of summer,Lfind. the! gales of July. As,if for protection, the grey, filmy mists shroud the mountaintops in tho dark,- cold days of ' this ; month. ! "Silent, snow-capped, mist-shrouded, I tho Tararuas stand as if to guard us for. ever, and ever, and ever. ~ ." "SUNSET," (12). x Carterton. "'.. .?,.." : ..