TOURIST TRAFFIC

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1935, Page 10

TOURIST TRAFFIC

HEAVY IN NORTH ISLAND

Easter, tourist traffic in the North Island appeared to have reached record proportions this year, according to. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Lane, of Kelburn, who have returned from a motor tour which,took them through Auckland, Hamilton, Rotorua, Wairakei, Taupo, and the Chateau at National Park. During the brief Easter season hotels and guest houses ats the tourist resorts were fully booked' up, and people who travelled there without having made definite arrangements for accommodation must have had some

difficulty in getting rooms. The northern roads were humming with motorcars^ and minor casualties in the shape of collisions, breakdowns, and upsets appeared -to be extraordinarily frequent. .'.'-■

The Chateau at Tongariro was amazingly popular with the Auckland public, and during this Easter season it was occupied byagay holiday crowd. The golf links presented a perfect picture, the fairways being beautifully grassed, and each of the nine greens was "a golfer's dream." Arrangements are being made to extend the course to eighteen holes, and if a similar success is achieved with the additional greens the course should soon take a leading place in the esteem of Dominion golfers.

Mr. and Mrs, Lane visited the Wairakei geyser valley, and witnessed the eruption of "Wairakei," the principal geyser, this phenomenon occurring only once in approximately ten hours. During their tour they encountered all sorts of roads, ranging in surface quality from excellent to atrocious. A tremendous amount of work has been done and is being carried on, in the direction of concreting, bitumenising, straightening, widening, and otnerwise improving the efficiency and safety of the main traffic routes.

leave the Hutt Central School at' 10 a.m., and the service, conducted by the ministers of religion, will commence at 10.30> At ■ the close of the service opportunity will be given for placing emblems of remembrance on the Cenotaph. At Petone the, service will be held on the Recreation Ground near the monument, commencing at 2.30 p.m: The address will be given- by Major R. G. Lamond, of the Salvation Army.* *■•' ,

Citizens of Upper Hutt, South African War veterans, and ex-service-men will meet at 2.30 tomorrow afternoon at Maidstonei Park for a service. Major C. A. L. Treadwell, 0.8. E., will deliver an address, and the officiating clergy will be the Revs. G. V.. Kendrick and G. L. Hunt and Captain Spillett, of the Salvation Army. If the weather is unsuitable for an open-air service the function will be held •in one' of the local halls. AT EASTBOURNE. A combined citizens' and R.S.A. service will be held at Eastbourne. A parade will form at the garage at Rata Street at 9.45 a.m., and a service will be held in the Grand Theatre at *10 a.m. Addresses will be given by the Revs. C. R. Kreeft and E. R. E. Ross and Mr. C. H. Child (R.S.A. representative).