OPENING UP TOURISTS' ROUTES.
(Fkom Otjb Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, November 2.
The Government has purchased the property held by Mr J. B. A. Dore, of Lak© Manapouri. The property consists of an improved estate, a comfortable hoxise, and a lake steamer, which will now be vested in the Tourist Department for the purpose of the development of th© tourist traffic. This is the preliminary step to opening up the overland route to Dusky Sound, the head of which is only 10 miles from the lake, in anticipation of a heavy increase in th© ■tourist traffic this season. Two new huts, pretentious enough to be called threeroomed cottages, have been erected on th© Te Anau-Milford track — one at Minta.ro and ■As, otfe« r adiasent Jq thg S^the.rla.n.4 raU^i
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Otago Witness, Issue 2695, 8 November 1905, Page 14
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