UNEXPLORED STREETS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21462, 8 April 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)

UNEXPLORED STREETS

KNOW YOUR OWN TOWN ADVENTURES OF fHE ROAD 'Buses, trams, and motor-cars made walking in towns a moral difficulty, which is hard to overcome. For one thing it is too easy to accustom onesself to covering a certain distance in a certain time, which depends upon being carried rather than using one's own legs. For another, when everybody rides it°seems abnormal to walk. That is, however, one of the advantages of walking, and it is not so difficult as it might seem to allow the extra time needed for it. Tramping in town of set purpose gives one a different view of a place than can be obtained from a tram-car or a motor. There is time to look at things, time to reflect on town-planning, time to discriminate, and time to learn the difference between various types of architecture. There are also adventures to be had in a big town. It is not uninteresting to steer by the sun instead of by _ the streets. With the aid of the sun, it is amusing to make a beeline for a given spot and thereby discover a number of streets and places one would otherwise never have seen. It is not uninteresting in a big town to find all the ways of getting to a place, long as well as short, and to take them in wet weather as well as in fine, in cold weather as well as warm, and so to see them under their different aspects. These adventurous tramps disclose a number of pleasant things. There are little bits of the road, for instance, which become specially dear, to which one looks forward, traversing which one is certain to feel one's imagination working. And there are tho bits which make home-coming pleasant by force of contrast, or bits where water plays its part. Jill this can be achieved, by no more complicated method than tramping the town.