AS OTHERS SEE US

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXIX, Issue 8301, 23 April 1932, Page 3

AS OTHERS SEE US

PRAISE FOR NEW ZEALAND’S SCENERY

A WONDERFUL COUNTRY

High praise for New Zealand’s scenic attractions was expressed by Captain E. W. Baliantine. the wellknown travelling sports writer, who has loured most parts of the British Empire, in an interview with a Wellington Post reporter before leaving for Australia. After touching on the various places visited Captain Ballauline summed up as follows: — “Apart from the extraordinary character of the scenery, one thing that struck me as most notable was the versatility. There was never too much of the same kind of scenery to tire one. I found majesty, in some parts of Now Zealand, I found romance associated with other scenery, and then there was a fairy-like suggestion in that enchanted drive from Hokitika to the Franz Josef, passing the picturesque Lake lanthe. That lake impressed me to such an extent in its fairy-like appearance that I christened it Tolanthe,’ having the Gilbert and Sullivan opera of that name in my mind. Much of the scenery that I saw was indescribable. I realise that I have not seen nearly half of New Zealand, but of what I have seen I think the Franz Josef visit will be remembered by me longer than anywhere else I went. “The railway travelling, and I calculate that I have travelled close on 7000 miles, was, generally speaking, very comfortable, the main line travelling equalling the best. A great deal could be said of the exceptional variety of scenery from the carriage windows. At times on the one side there were great stretches of the ocean, and at other times there were great, high mountains in the distance, their slopes covered with dense bush or an extraordinary variety of ferns. “Unfortunately, New Zealand is on just the other side of the world from England, and it may handicap many would-bc visitors who, however, having visited New Zealand would, like myself, look fprward to a return visit.”