EASTER TOURS
WITHIN EASY DISTANCE OF TOWN COMPUTE YfU* PETIIL SUPPLIES With the first of the Easter holiday* less than a week away many people have already given consideration- to the question pf holiday tours* With petrol restrictions limiting the dis* tahcetbe average motorist may travel* short trips will be popular. ' With the object of providing these .people with some idea as to suitable pleasure resorts within easy. striking . distance of the city,, the Automobile Association (Otago) I 'has compiled a list of - places grouped in alphabetical order. Against each is the distance from town so that the individual motorist. will be able to reckon, up ■ what distance he will .have to travel—against the petpol coupons he has oa hand. The suitability of the placea named for camping, swimming, fish* v , ing, etc., is also given. . ' Here is the list Akatore Beach and. River, Mouth, (29 miles).—Camping, fishing, shooting, "sutf' bathing^".„ Proceed''via “Brighton and Taieti Mouth. ” - - ■* Bull Creek (proceed via Milton, 49 ■' miles);—Accommodation same, aa above. fishing, and suri bathing. -.. , ■ • Buckland’s Crossing (28, miles),— Good .camping, fishing, shooting, ana swimming. Beaumont (73 miles).—Accommoda* tion,‘ deer stalldng, fishing; rabbit shooting. State., forest reserve three miles down river. Brighton (12 miles).—Acccmmodaw tion, surf,bathing, shooting. Doctors’ Point (15 miles). —Shoots ing, surf bathing. ] Dunback (44 miles): —Shooting, fishing, river bathing, camping. 1 .Hampden Beach (53 miles). —Camp* ing, surf bathing, shooting. ; ; : . Hooper’s Inlet (Otago Peninsula* 13 miles). —Boating, fishing. Also atfc jacent Wyckliffe Bay, Allan Beach-* picnic places. - * ’ .- Henley . (19 miles). tion, fishing, swimming, picnic place. Kaka Point (65 miles). —Accommo* datipn, surf- bathing, shooting; bush, .. camping. Kartigi (41 miles). —Beach, surl bathing, shooting. V - Kakanui (68 miles). —Beach, rive* mouth fishing, boating, bathing, >ab* commodation.
Long Beach (16 miles, also. Purai : kanui).—Surf bathing, fishing, shoot* . ing. Mahinerangi Lake (42, miles). —Only approach is via Lee Stream and Wai* pori • township. Camping, fishings shooting. Moeraki (51 miles).—Boating, fish*. Ing, swimming, shooting. Outram Glen (17 miles).—Picnig spot, bush. . . Pounawea (77 miles).—Boating^ swimming, fishing, bush walking. j * Taieri Mouth (24 miles).— swimming, shooting, camping. ' Trotter’s Gorge (47 miles). —Busfaj shooting, swimming, picnic • spot* camping. Waihola Lake ’ (25 ■ miles).—Swimt ming, shooting, fishing, boating, picniA place. . Wangaloa Beach (36 miles, proceed via- Kaitangata).—Shooting, surf bathing, good beach.: ■ J .. Warrington (17 miles).—Accommos ' dation, ; good , beach, surf shooting. ■Waikouaiti (27 miles). — surf bathing, good beach, shooting. “
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Evening Star, Issue 23527, 16 March 1940, Page 12
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387EASTER TOURS Evening Star, Issue 23527, 16 March 1940, Page 12
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