MOUNT EGMONT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 9 December 1924, Page 4

MOUNT EGMONT.

DAWSON - FALLS. VISITORS’ FIRST VIEW. Appreciation of the sublime beauty of the peak and the picturesqueness of the scenery en route to Dawson Falls is expressed by all visitors to Taranaki. Lately tourists from America and from Great Britain, seeing mountain and falls for the first time, were most keenly delighted at the opportunity of seeing this New Zealand mountain. When Dean Russell and Professor Macklin, of Wisconsin, were being motored round parts of Taranaki the sun. caine out after a spell of -cloud and rain, and the mountain cleared. They were not only interested but thrilled at their first clear view of the peak, and insisted on stopping the car so as to take photographs. They expressed themselves in most emphatic terms of the picturesque grandeur of the peak, and took numbers of photographs, expressing the opinion that New Zealand was not making half enough of her natural scenic beauties.

Amongst the visitors to Dawson Falls yesterday morning were Mr and Mrs James Mitchell and Mr John Mitchell, of Wellington, who were accompanied bv Mr E. Stott and Mr Barnall, of the great British firm of Payne and Sons, Oxley, Yorkshire, one of the leading 1 printing machine manufacturers in England and one of the longest established. This was the first trin of the English visitors to New Zealand and to Taranaki, and they were most keenly enthusiastic in their expressions of appreciation of the. lieauty and grandeur of the bush in the reserve and also of the falls. They took numerous photographs of points of interest on the track and at the falls and hostel.