The Hawera Star. MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1925. DAWSON FALLS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 6 April 1925, Page 4

The Hawera Star.

MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1925. DAWSON FALLS.

Delivered every everting by 6 o'clock "it llawera. Manaia. Normanby, Okaiawa, Eltham, Mangaioki. Kaponga, Alton. HnrleyviHo, Patea, Waverley; ' jMokoia, Whakamara, (ihangai. Merentere, Fraser Road, and Ararata.

Because the Government is not overburdened with money to spend on tourist resorts, and because every part of the Dominion is crying out for the lion’s share of such expenditure as may be undertaken, it is too much to hope that the first move of the Hawera Chamber of Commerce in connection with accommodation at Dawson Falls will bring the Minister’s fairy wand immediately into action. At the same, time the Chamber is to be commended for its enthusiasm in the mattteiv and • several soundly . practical suggestions were made at Friday night’s meeting. One point, that must be made plain is that the need at the Mountain House is for more accommodation, rather than for better accommodation. Everyone who has been a guest there is keen to go back, both for the sake of the natural beauty of the surroundings and the hospitality he has enjoyed at the hands of the present, host and hostess. The trouble is that, he wishes to take his friends with him, and that they add their friends, until very soon all available room is taken, up, and people, if they are not being turned away, are forced to stay down on the plains, knowing that the Moun-. tain House is full. This position might be overcome in either of two ways. The more satisfactory solution would be to increase the accommodation at. Dawson Falls; an alternative, and less costly, wav out would be to take advantage of the hotel accommodation available in Hawera and to make, a feature of long, one-day motor excursions to the mountain. Mr F. W. Horner urged this course at the Chamber of Commerce meeting, and it certainly appears to merit careful consideration. Primarily it may be a' matter for the motor companies running to the Falls, but it is also one which affects very intimately the town and district. This, of course, quite a simple matter for a party of visitors to make private arrangements with a garage ' for a trip which might, for example, land- them at the Mountain House before, breakfast, leave them the whole day for climbing, and drop them at their hotel door in Hawera / after dusk. But the point is that people in Auckland and Christ: church do not know this, and tourists especially do not- know it. If the. Chamber of Commerce could make itself responsible for bringing together the hotel licensees, the motor companies, and the authorities at the Mountain House, with the object of drawing up some definite time-table,-which could then be advertised widely, the result would be to add both to tourists’ impressions of the beauties of the Dominion and to the fame of Mount Egmont.