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Southland Times, Issue 20002, 16 October 1926, Page 11

THE ALPINE ADVENTURES OF PROFESSOR PEP. No. 5. (In which the Professor dilates on the joy of selling happiness to a bored world). In my opinion, {he people who run the Hermitage, who take people up to Mount Cook, make ’em happy whilst they’re there, and then see them back again, are amongst the luckiest people on earth. It is pretty good to be able to spend your life making people cheerful, giving them a new lease of life, renewing their youth, and sending them back to their daily round full of energy and joy. It is pretty good to know that you have provided hundreds of people, young and old, with a holiday of holidays—and a life long memory. It must be a great feeling to see the folks who arrived tired and sceptical departing with health and gratitude, and vowing that they’ll return first time they get a chance. Sometimes I siK out in the big “Hermitage” lounge at night and watch the young folk dancing—or I go and watch two cheery old boys potting the red and missing easy cannons—and I can’t help wishing it were possible to express in words what is written in those happy faces. Up here—“thousands of feet above worry level”—with old Aorangi lifting his white head up to a moon which floods the mountains with light; up here—where music, laughter, aud high spirits mingle with romance .and grandeur—up here you can forget the sordid and the commonplace. You are in a world above the world. Your troubles and worries stay far away down below. Laugh at me if you like—but I tell you there is something miraculous about the “Hermitage.” Consider the place itself—an up-to-date luxurious hotel right away up in the heart of the mountains; an hotel electrically heated and lighted, an hotel with telegraph and telephone facilities and with every convenience and luxury your heart can desire—yet six and a half hours away from any other civilisation! And look what excitement awaits you—ski-ing (with a famous Norwegian expert to teach you), tobagganing, skating, excursions, riding, dancing. Wines, if you want them, and meals made to measure for your mountain appetite. The air is just wonderful: gets into your blood and gives you new energy and ‘strength. You never feel the cold because the air is dry and filled with sunshine. Even though you are not athletic—if it is complete rest and change that you seek—there is no holiday in the whole world better than a holiday at Mount Cook. Go and get a pen and some notepaper. Send an S.O.S. to The Mount Cook Motor Co., Ltd. (Strathallan Street, Timaru), Thos. Cook and Son, or the Government Tourist Bureaux. Tell them you want to read the booklet. Find out for yourself what I have discovered—namely, that twenty-seven pounds will give you two weeks’ holiday up here and pay all travelling expenses. You don’t know what you’re missing. Go ahead—write! P.S.:—Did you know that the fares from Timaru to the “Hermitage” have also dropped “again” from £6 to £3/10/-.—Advt. (To be continued).

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