WONDROUS BEAUTY OF THE UREWERA

Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3576, 6 April 1927, Page 7

WONDROUS BEAUTY OF THE UREWERA

Efforts Being Made to Open up Highways MAORIS UNSPOILED AND ENTHUSIASTIC L "limes” Special.] AUCKLAND. Last Night. "The Urewera presents some of the most beautiful scenery in the Dominion,” said Mr. R. E. Champtaloup today on his return from a motor tour there. "The country is so wonderful that every effort is being made to push the road through to Lake Waikaremoana and to open it up to tourists.” That was really the object of the visit of a party of members of the Auckland Automobile Association which made a journey of 225 into the heart of the Urewera. , "In the Urewera the Maoris are still unspoiled,” said Mr. Champtaloup. "They are smaller than the natives one sees in tourist resorts, but are much more wiry,” Mr. Champtaloup said that recently a party of deer-stalkers took a wireless set into the’Urewera. A number of Maori boys and girls walked 14 miles through the dense bush to 11s-ten-in to an account of a prize-fight in Sydney. The entertainment lasted until 1 o’clock In the morning. Undaunted, the Maoris set out to walk the 14 miles back to their homes. Speaking of the roads which are slowly being made through this wonderful scenic area, Mr., Champtaloup said that one is being constructed to connect with Lake Walkaremoana and the road from Walrba. (Hawke's Bay). Another road Is being constructed from the Bay of Plenty which now extends southward from Walmana. When these links .are completed New Zealand will have scenic attractions which will draw thousands of tourists. - ’ ‘ ■ ■ ■. , • :