SCENERY IN N.Z. OUTCLASSES THA SEEN IN AMERICA

Wanganui Chronicle, 4 October 1946, Page 4

SCENERY IN N.Z. OUTCLASSES THA SEEN IN AMERICA

The natural scenery of the United States is nothing to compare with New Zealand, but nevertheless was attractive enough, and one of the star features is the excellent highways which make travel in America such a pleasure, said Miss Beatrice Brown, who is visiting Wanganui following seven years spent on the North American continent. The 24-hour road service was outstanding, but was perhaps natural, as America was automobile minded. No person's possessions were complete unless he owned a car. “I have seen people living in an old tumbledown tin shack with the only tire being out jn the yard because there was no room for it in the house, yet parked by the door was their auto,’’ and often an expensive one at that,” Miss Brown remarked. Roadside cabins was an excellent idea popular in the States, and which could well be introduced to this country. These small cabins contained all the necessary fittings such as stoves, lights, beds, tables, hot and cold water, and linen, and cutlery. All a traveller needed to carry was his clothing and food. These cabins were much cheaper than hotels and more convenient than a caravan or tent, which many travellers in this country rely upon.

These cabin camps were scattered along all the highways and did a thriving business from the pleasure bent American public, who seemed to spend all their leisure time travelling, which was cheap with gasoline at 8d a gallon.

The redwood forest in Oregon State was the most attractive and impressive scenery she had seen in America, Miss Brown stated. Here, too. American enterprise had seen to it that the visitor was well catered for and there were cabin camps scattered throughout the forest.