“ MIGHT I SUGGEST ?”

Otago Witness, Issue 3764, 4 May 1926, Page 30

“ MIGHT I SUGGEST ?”

SOME HOLIDAY HINTS. Useful hints for ideal holiday locations that will doubtless be remembered by intending tourists throughout the Dominion were given by Mr K, W. Marshall (Government tourist agent at Logan Park) from the Exhibition radio station on Wednesday evening. “Now the wonderful s?ew Zealand and South Seas Exhibition Is almost at an

end, many residents of Dunedin and many Exhibition workers who have not been able to take their annual holiday during the past season, are turning theii thoughts towards a holiday,” he said. “Everyone Agrees that a holiday once a year is a good investment, and 1 beg V suggest a few of the many holiday resorts with which New Zealand is blessed. For those who desire a quiet holiday in the heart of Nature, amidst scenery indescribably lovely, and amongst invigorating mountain air, nowhere can appeal like Queenstown. Here is something to do for either young or old—tennis, croquet, bow ls, or golf, while there are many and varied side trips either by car, coach, or launch, while those who love a tramp can have a surfeit of their particular pleasure. Another magnificent resort within a day’s travel is Pembroke, on Lake Wanaka. Few people realise what, a magnificent climate this district enjoys. Atmospherically the thermometer is low, but at this height above sea level the air is dry and invigorating, the days clear, warm, and sparkling, and filled with sunshine. Suffice to say that a holiday spent among the entrancing lakes and mountains of Otago will renew your health and leave delightful memories. A little further afield is the “Hermitage, Mount Cook.’” This trip can be easily combined with the trip to Queenstown and Pembroke, as special reduced fares are now being offered as an inducement to travellers to do the round trip. The Hermitage is the base • for serious climbing or a resort for holiday-makers, and is easy of acess, comfortable, and equal to any alpine resort in the world. Here, again, we find clear, sparkling, sunny days; in fact, just the climate to forget all our cares and troubles. Nature here was in her most generous mood, as scenic wonders have been scattered with a lavish hand. Giant, glittering glaciers, fascinating ice falls, cloud-piercing peaks and crags, beauty upon beauty all the way. “Every passing year the West Coast is becoming better known as a winter resort. This is the time when the most brilliant and delightful weather is enjoyed, as the stately forests and beautiful fern-lined roads testify, the West Coast has a bountiful rainfall, but during the winter months one can usually depend upon many days of bright sunshine. Here are great glaciers, bushclad mountains, lovely lakes, and roads through natural ferneries and fragrant collonades of native forest. “One of the charms of the thermal regions is perhaps that everything Is different. Every turn unfolds some new item of interest, either weird or wonderful. Here are geysers, boiling pools, and volcanoes, steam vents, and thousands of ferns of thermal activity. Then there are the celebrated baths. In one huge building it i 3 possible to have any sort of mineral bath, mud baths, vapour baths, electric baths, sulphur baths, and many other kinds. “Why go outside of the Dominion to enjoy the tropical winter of the South Sea Islands when north of Auckland, commonly called the ‘winterless north,’ is right at our door. Her© frosts are unknown, and one can enjoy a lazy life amongst pleasant surroundings, with many side trips by launch to beauty spots of historic interest. Here also is found the finest deep-sea fishing in the Southern Hemisphere.”