MOUNT EDEN CRATER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19730, 1 September 1927, Page 12

MOUNT EDEN CRATER.

Sir,—l wish to thank yeur correspondents for their excellent {etters in Wed- , nesday's Herald regarding the above subject. Since coming to Auckland I have taken a great number ol Australian, British and American visitors to the top of .Mount Eden, because I know how fascinated I was on my first visit three and a-half years ago. Perhaps a new-" comer mav be able to describe and under, stand the impression of visitors better than those who have known this most beautiful mountain and crater all their lives I therefore venture to say that everv visitor from other lands comes away from Mount Eden charmed with the marvellous view and fascinated by the crater. I heard of both from a tourist in England. When the view is partly forgotten, the memory of the crater remains.' and it is this which, to very many, is the chief attraction. Trees and fernS are delightful in their place, but their placo is certainly not in the crater. To rob that weird hollow of its naked appeal to the imagination is to rob the mountain of its great attraction. I add my voice to the chorus which is bound to swell into a deafening shout of indignatiop, and trust that those who have meant so well ■.fill, on second thoughts, do better than they originally intended and leave tha crater alone in its grim attractiveness. Lioket. B. Ft.itceb. Birkenhead, August 31, 1927.