TOURIST RESORTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18157, 31 January 1921, Page 6

TOURIST RESORTS

COMPLAINTS OF NEGLECT

(From Ode Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, January 29. The article in the Christchurch Press giving the experiences of Mr Jamieson on the Milford Sound track this season has attracted a good deal of attention. A roan who is keen on developing our scenic resources in the interests of our ■ own people, as well as in the interests of , visitors from other countries, states that he had a similar experience last season. With a view to relieving the congestion he ’ suggests that the department should open up the track from Milford Sound to Lake Wakatipu, Huts and a bridge in I one place are urgently needed, and he suggests that something should bo done in this direction. The local County Council might put up a wire to support the bridge. Apparently, however, although they have been asked to do something occasionally, the local authorities are slow to move. Other tourists complain of the want of comfort both in travel and in accommodation along some of the tourist routes. They also complain of the difficulty in getting reliable information. The other day a man who went to the tourist information bureau in the capital to get information about the rainbow trout fishing in the Taupo district was told that they had no information, and he was referred to a local fishing tackle firm. He then asked for a map of Lake Taupo, possibly the finest scenic and angling district in the North Island, but aIL the department could produce was a small outline map of the island, on which Lake Taupo was represented by a mere outline. While there is probably at the present lime little money available for the improve- ' ment of the tourist resorts, there should be no excuse for such a lack of informa- ■ tion at the Tourist Bureau. At Mount Cook there is- still insufficient accommodation for the number of people who wish to visit that locality, where the present Hermitage ’ tariff is £1 6 day. Accommodation at a .cheaper rate might be provided in hutments erected near the Hermitage. More huts, also, are wanted in the glacier valleys.