SIGHTS OF DUNEDIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27276, 30 December 1949, Page 4

SIGHTS OF DUNEDIN

OBSERVATION TOURS POPULAR WITH PUBLIC The City Corporation’s observation tours have been popular so far during the holiday period and the Transport Department has planned some new attractions for the New Year holidays. During Christmas and since, 20 buses carried about 500 sightseers on the two observation tours round the Peninsula and to Larnach Castle. In addition to these two , popular trips, the department plans to restore the " billy tea ” trip to Whare Flat. Next Monday and Tuesday on this tour bus drivers will boil the billy in attractive bush surroundings, a pleasant diversion for the passengers. Formerly they were given tea in a farm house. The department is at present endeavouring to start an observation tour which might be labelled “ Dunedin from the hills.” Plans have not yet been completed, but it is proposed to run buses to Pine Hill, along Patmos avenue, into Leith Valley, through Maori Hill, Roslyn ' and Mornington and then through Kew to St. Clair. If the Department is able to inaugurate this tour it will probably be in operation next week.

When the sun is'shining and people are swarming to the city beaches, the tram service has a strenuous time. Owing to ’ the disappointing weather during Christmas, however, not many ventured to the beaches and. with the exception of Sunday—and then there was a shark cruising off shore—the trams have not been as full as in recent years. Nevertheless, visitors to the city have kept the conductors busy.