WINTERING AT WAIWERA

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIII, Issue III, 15 July 1899, Page 75

WINTERING AT WAIWERA

Waiwera. which is one of the finest of summer resorts in the vicinity of Auckland is also one that does not lose its attractiveness in winter. From its sheltered position the sanatorium on a sunny day in August is delight fully mild, and with a little improvement in the roads, which are excellent in summer, and a good wharf, the place would, to a certainty, have a

great many visitors even at this time of the year. The new proprietor. Mr IV. Paterson, is pursuing an enterprising policy in respect to the management of the place, and the result of his laliours will be thoroughly appreciated in the coming season when the various improvements he has inaugurated have been completed. Among these is the laying out of a new tenuis lawn, which will be open for play in the summer, and the entire renovation of the men's swimming bath. The latter, though in many respects excellent, has the disadvantage that the water supplying it is not constantly warm as in the ladies' bath. It is intended to remedy this by eenveying the hot water from several springs on the beach directly into th • bathhouse; and it is anticipated that when this is done the men's bath will lie as good as the ladies'.

There is now. too. a very good prospect that the wharf, the want of which has greatly impeded the progress of this district and the popularity of the sanatorium, will lie erected before next summer. The proprietor of the place has contributed £3OO towards the building of the structure, which is to cost about £l5OO. We understand that it will be constructed at such a point of the bay that steamers will be able to get alongside of it in any weather, and at any state of the tide. A muchneeded improvement that it rests with the County Council to make is the forming of a decent road to Upper Waiwera. This winter the road has been simply impassadle. and the settlers have preferred to use the bed of the river as a thoroughfare to wading knee deep in mud.