SUMMER HOLIDAYS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 230, 14 September 1935, Page 10

SUMMER HOLIDAYS

Mt. Cook and Queenstown In addition to the tisual arrangementsjor holiday-makers at Mt. Cook and Queenstown in late spring and summer, the Mt. Cook Tourist Company has prepared a very attractive programme of land cruises, which will begin on November 1. Parties (a minimum of four passengers) are taken in private cars to the Hermitage and the southern lakes. Two of these motor cruises (from Timaru and Dunedin) are for periods of ten days each at a total cost of £l5, including firstclass hotel accommodation, side-trips, etc. This free-and-easy way of taking a holiday has proved very popular in older countries. It promises to be similarly attractive in the scenic regions of New Zealand where every day’s travel can have its own distintive charm.

4 strong man and marathon golfer. Robert Coy, of Pretoria, Illinois, has played ICXX> successive holes of golf without a rest, breaking what he claims to he his own world record of 476 consecutive holes. In response to the appeal for the victims of the Quetta earthquake issued to Governments by the International Relief Union, Italy has contributed £1001), Rumania £4O. Germany £125, Mid Switzerland £l3O,