TALK ON NORTHLAND

Northern Advocate, 2 December 1936, Page 5

TALK ON NORTHLAND

RADIO BROADCAST LAST NIGHT I Northland was on the air last night, when an address on the attraction of the territory from the point of view of settlement and touring was delivered from 1 YA, Auckland, by a member of the Whangarei Chamber of Commerce. The talk was limited to 15 minutes, but a very excellent summary of the hundred and one features of this unique part of New Zealand was given.

“We are on the happy threshold of the holiday season,” said the speaker. “There may be some who toil not, neither do they spin, to whom the word ‘holiday’ brings no welcome prospect of release from routine daily work. But most of us were born with a pen or a pickaxe in our hands rather than a silver spoon in our mouths, and we are already enjoying the first thrill of cur holidays in planning ‘where to go and what to do.’ “While you are still busy with the question ‘Where shall we go?’ the [whangarei Chamber of Commerce sent me along to remind you of Northland, and I hope I’m in time to suggest in your planning for this summer that you don’t forget Cinderella; in other words that you give yourself a good chance of recognising . the attractions and shy fascination of the so-called ‘poor North,’ which is really, though Kipling did not know it, ‘the last, loneliest, loveliest New Zealand’ and not expensively far away, a panorama of changing scenes, where the spices of discovery wait on the adventure of exploration and sea breezes are permanent ministers of exhilarating health and recreation.” The speaker went on to describe the means of getting to Northland and proceeded to show that the title “poor North” had no truth in actuality, and he described the many attractions to be seen and experienced, telling also of the thriving towns within the area and the many miles of all weather roads.

“As to the Winterless North.” the speaker concluded, “it is a pleasant misnomer that need not depress you. It may almost be justified in the Far North, where this picturesque title was coined. But generally over the North, winter pays short seasonable visits each year, .but always without its arctic mantle of snow. Shelley’s line is pre-eminently true of Northland; “If winter comes can spring be far behind?”