A MAGNIFICENT WALK.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1036, 27 January 1911, Page 3

A MAGNIFICENT WALK.

TE ANAU-MILFORD TKIP'. Mr. H. N. Holmes, secretary to the Y.M.C.A., and Air. F. Bart, of Wellington, havo just returned from a visit to tho south, during which they did the To Auau-MilfoVd trip—which hns. been described as one of the finest walks in the world. The magnificence of the mountain and lake scenery embraced in the tour lires everyone with the greatest enthusiasm. Mr. Holmes states that it is beautiful beyond compare, and after seeing the panoramas which stretch away to the blue distance from the different points of vantage, one is filled with mild surprise to find that any. New Zealanders have not trodden the ways of this earthly paradise. Mr. Holmes "says that everything is all rigßt along the track—the hut accommodation is satisfactory, the roads are good, the food is : plain but gonsb and the'weather at this time of the year is pretty reliable. The trip can be done comfortably in fourteen days from Wellington and ten days from Dunedin. "Wo took three days to walk from Te Anau to Milford, stayed there three days and took two days to return," said Mr. Holmes, "and the going was such-that it did not distress the ladies in our party. With us were Dr. Keanc, of Melbourne; Mr. and Mrs. David Maughan, of Sydney, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Burns, of Parramatta; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Seed, of Christchurch; and the Kev. Father Mangan, of Melbourne. What I would like to suggest by improving tins magnificent walk is that tho trip should be inado triangular—that instead of retracing the way between Te Anau and Milford a track should be cut across the recentlydiscovered Marshall's Pass, so that tourists could take in Wakatipu in the same trip.. All the Australians in tho party were enthusiastic over tho scenery, and freely said that there was nothing finer in Australasia, and Mr. Wade, who started as wo finished, declared the view from the track to hi the finest in the Southern Hemisphere."