Where Shall I Spend Easter?

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXII, Issue XII, 19 March 1904, Page 46

Where Shall I Spend Easter?

How many Aucklanders are aware of the facilities offered by the Main Trunk railway in conjunction with the Wanganui Riser for a most enjoyable week end holiday? Yet any business man leaving by the 10 a.m. train for Taumarunui on a Friday morning can spend two or three restful and healthgiving days amid the grand and romantic scenery of the peerless AVanganiii River and be back at his office on Tuesday. One must see to thoroughly realise the keen enjoyment of this river trip. From the start at Taumarunui in the early morning, past mile after mile of enchanted riverland, each fresh turn challenging the last for loveliness, skilfully brought through rapids or si earning swiftly down still reaches, till the end of the journey, the voyage is most exhilarating and "satisfying. Easter affords a special opportunity of doing this trip, the steel steamer Ongarue leaving Taumarunui ph Saturday morning for Pipiriki. and going on to AVanganui on Sunday, thence home by way of New Plymouth, completes an ideal outing. AVe must mention that passages must be reserved in advance by wire to A. Hatrick and Co., of Wanganui, proprietors of the steamer service.