NEW PLAYGROUND.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 December 1928, Page 12

NEW PLAYGROUND.

SPORT, BEAUTY AND COMFORT,

Tiie American motorist is finding a new country to tour, the island of Newfoundland. Mr. W. Fraser Bond writes as follows in the “New York Times” :

Motorists desiring a holiday experience out of the usual run should not overlook the claims of Britain’s oldest colony—Newfoundland. Although the fact is not generally known, Newfoundland boasts first-class highways for motorists, and every facility to make the. automobile enthusiast, the keen fisherman or the golfer enjoy a vacation after his own heart. The old island is rapidly becoming a new-found-pla.y-ground for Americans.. Newfoundland’s excellent system of roads has attracted motorists since 1924, when the chief highways were completed. Since then the Government’s Highway Commission has seen to it that they are kept in condition and their scope enlarged. An interesting and unusual feature of their construction is that, in laying them, the Commission called for the supervision of a distinguished Dutch landscape architect. As a result, full advantage has. been taken of scenic opportunities. Vista follows vista. Now the roads wind through avenues of cathedral-like evergreen ; now they skirt a striking panorama of sea coast. The great bays, for which the island is famous, furnish seascapes of surprising loveliness. Stern capes and bold rock palisades stand as outposts for peaceful little fishing hamlets. The vast stretches of the North Atlantic itself take on changing shades of blue and green of a variety and beauty that the Mediterranean might well envy.