RIVEIRA OF NEW ZEALAND

Northern Advocate, 15 August 1933, Page 5

RIVEIRA OF NEW ZEALAND

CLIMATE OF NORTH . AUCKLAND. RAWENE’S CURATIVE (Special to. "Northern Advocate., WELLINGTON, This .Day.: Sir Harold Beauchamp, who hasjustr returned from a visit to the- North Auckland district is of the opinion that the Far North is destined to be*'come the Riveira of New Zealand. “As pcojile advance in years/ ’ lie sdid, “it is only natural that they should wish to avoid the rigours -drwinter, and to do that they must' go North. I suppose the temperature, is at least ten degrees warmer" in Auckland city than in Wellington dur-.; ing the winter, aful presumably it .is a little warmer still at the Bay of Is*' lands. Russell is a one-horse town at present, but it is pretty sure to velop as people begin to realise, that mild air and plenty of sunshine. ,afQavailable there, even in mid-winter.

“When I was at Kaikohe I met a schoolmaster from Rawene, on the west coast of the district, Who was most enthusiastic over the curative properties of the air, and declared that it was most effective in. cases of - phthisis. ‘I am not, particularly .Interested iu you as-Sir Harold.. Beauchamp,’ said this schoolmaster, - ;') with disarming frankness, ‘but I nm:-inter-) osted in you as the father of Katherine Mansfield. Why, oh why, was she, never sent here instead of to the South of France? I am sure she would have had a better chance, of living if it could have boon managed. ” - * • Kir Harold said he quoted :the'incident only as illustrating the" ÜbnOst sublime faith the people of the Far Xorth had in the climate of the region. “All I know,” he remarked, “fo" that returning to Wellington from the Far North is like stopping from a warm bath to a cold shower.” )/.: