The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1925. THE DISTRICT’S HEALTH AND TOURIST RESORTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10066, 3 August 1925, Page 4

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1925. THE DISTRICT’S HEALTH AND TOURIST RESORTS.

Tim member for the district (Mr Lysnar/ is to be commended on his •efforts to bestir the Government into activity in the matter of improving the facilities in connection with the scenic and health resorts in this district. In the past the excuse that successive Governments have offered was that it was idle to spend a lot more money at Lake Waikaremoa.ua, Morore and Te Puia in particular until the highways leading thereto had been re-constructed and placed in all-the-year-round order. That excuse does not now hold good in respect of the two first mentioned places and if everything possible be done next season to improve the Coast road it will no longer Ire applicable in that regard. It is wellknown that the Government has authorised extensive improvements at Lake House—and not before they were needed—but it is, as Mr Lysnar told Mr Coates and his just as important that the road round the Lake should be made passable in winter as well as in summer by having metal put on the worst stretches w.hich, as is well-known, get into a deplorable state after rain for a day or two. As to the Morere baths, Mr Lysnar did well to emphasise that the accommodation should be increased. The difficulty in respect of Morere is that two classes require to he catered for—invalids and tourists. If the mineral waters there were not highly beneficial—and, of course, thereverse is the position—Morere, on account of the fact that the baths are both warm and pleasant and the fact that the bush is so pretty, would continue to attract an increasingly large number of visitors. What is wanted there is not only more accommodation hut' also an extension of the hath scheme. In due course, too, the tennis courts and howling green may have to be enlarged. But the most neglected health-promoting spot in this district is, unquestionably, 'J'o Puia. Unhappily since the destruction by fire of the “hostel” some years ago tho accommodation has not been extensive, although those in charge have, in the circumstances. done their best for the comfort of invalids. As it so happens, To Puia, cannot be availed of by the afflicted in the winter months, on account of the atrocious state of the northern portion of the GisborneTolaga Bay section of the East Coast road. Tho Massey Government intended to erect an up-to-date hostel at Te Puia, but the work has been deferred from time to time, presumably, as Mr Lysnar suggests, because the vote would have proved inadequate. It would, indeed, seem in regard to the Te Puia springs that the authorities fail to credit- the excellent reports that have been submitted by their own experts in respect of the valuable medicinal asset represented by the. mineral waters there. Whether the new Government will prove sympathetic towards the requests made by Mr Lysnar on liehalf of the people of this district w.ill not be known until the Estimates are brought down. But it will he verv gratifying if it should turn oi*t that, Mr Coates and his colleagues are prepared to deviate from the old policy of concentrating attention on the health and scenic resorts in proximity to the main railway lines.