GLACIAL DISTRICT

Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1929, Page 3

GLACIAL DISTRICT

butter access required. The wonders of the glacial district of tlie West Coast are gradually being realised .hy motorists on this side ol the island, with whom the trip either round the l top of the South Island, via Kaikoura, Nelson, the Duller Gorge, and Grey mouth, or though the Otira Tunnel, is becoming more popular every holiday period. The road to the Franz Josef Glacier is recognised as being amongst the most beautiful jn the Dominion, and it is even ipore so on to the Fox Glacier, another 17 miles further south, the forest scenery over the latter portion being described as being quit© the oest in the >vorld> ’The distance front the accommodation houses at the foot o. both glaciers is approximately the same—about throe miles —but although it presents no difficulties to trampers, there are many people, to-day who would prefer to do the trip, short though it is, by motor-car. With reference to the matter, a letter lias been received by the secretary of the Canterbury Automobile Association (Mr J. S. Hawkes), which will no doubt come before the next meeting of that body, from the Association’s Hokitika branch, asking the co-opera-tion of that body in urging the Tourits Department to construct three miles of motor road between the Glacier Hotel, Waiho, and tlie glacier itself “as the walking of three mires often prevents elderly people from seeing the glacier, causing much disappointment.”