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Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1920, Page 2

A correspondent writing to-day emphasises the trials a.ml tribulations of Uie southern traveller attempting to make the south trip in unfavourable weather The delays and dangers will continue while the rivers intersecting the main road remains unbridged. For long now there lias been .consistent agitation for tlie bridging of the rivers.. Votes have appeared on the Estimates, bnt there is slow delay in spending the money. Fop many of the smaller structures it cannot be the want of material because standing forests of magnificent timber grow adjacent to tlie troublesome streams. It is not too much lo ,

ask the Department to push on these works. Area for area it would be difficult to find another locality in the whole Dominion which is being so starred as South Westland is being for ihc' want of the bridges. During this season several owners of valuable cars who have made the south trip, have had unpleasant experiences on the journey, and could not have gone away with a favourable impression of the route, nor with a set purpose of advising their friends to make the tour. The want of l.the bridges is thus robbing u.s of that friendly support which the natural .ft-i----i lures of the district should he earning. A Minister is likely to make h ; s I way south this month, and if so it is to he hoped his advent will result in ' special instructions'to go on with the 1 one thing needful to make the south trip the joy and the pleasure it should bo to all who undertake it. • This Westland Acclimatisation Society by its enterprise and foresight is agun taking steps to give the district a specially good advertisement. In the part , the Society has published and issued several useful illustrated booklets of •Westland. These are now mostly out I of print, and to supply the demand ft ■’ something further in that line, a boonlet entitled “Beautiful Westland” will be on the market immediately. Tin's handsome booklet is brought up to date with all the latest views of industries, \ and is a very fine souvenir of tile dis--1 triets attractions. The booklet covers ail parts of the Coast, from Grey mouth down to Mt. Aspiring. The lakes and mountain scenery are specially illustrated, and the whole array of pictures is a very fine descriptive story of the beauties of Westland. Incidentally -t may. lie remarked the Society is asking per mission to present a. specially bound copy to the booklet to H.R.H. tie Prince of Wales. Tlie Society is to be congratulated on wliat it has done in 'tie past and its proposals for the future. The booklet will he welcomed by those who desire to advertise our beauties abroad, and visitors will find it just what is wanted to carry away wi;n them impressions of “Beautiful Westland.”