RAURIMU.

King Country Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 1, 26 October 1906, Page 3

RAURIMU.

Connection with Tokaanu. A judicious, but comparatively small%xpehditure would complete the partly formed coach road between Raurimu and Tokaanu, opening ; the mountain attractions to the tourists, and establishing a permanent highway for traffic between Taupo and the Wariganui/River; ' Even as the road lies with the fifteen miles next to Raurimu a horsetrack, the journey of fifty Or sixty miles from Raurimu to Tokaanu, is one to. linger in the recolections of,those who ride over it. The snow-capped peaks of Ngaruahoe and Tongariro are the only company a traveller experiences along the sinuous track. As he sees, now close, how distant, the deserted pahs, his, imagination is at once stimulated, and he sees the' Waimarino Plate.au in pre-pakeha days. Smoke and steam clouds hung in attention over Ngaruahoe, and high up on Tongariro the fumaroles of the sulphur springs look like a battery'jn action. There is nothing to oppose me weird fascination of the mountains in this house of poetic Maori legend. The authorities are stocking the streams with trout, and an accommodation house will, ere long, be in evidence near Ketetahi, about midway between Raurimu and Tokaanu. The completion of the road is the necessary step to make this region accessable to the tourists, and to open this part of the country to the Main Trunk line, and to bind together the commercial interests of scenic advantages of the Waimarino Plateau.