HOLIDAY TOUR

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 41, 18 February 1930, Page 12

HOLIDAY TOUR

PACIFIC NORTH-WEST

"EVERGREEN PLAYGROUND"

(From "The Post's" Representative.) VANCOUVER, 22nd January.

,The Pacific North-west, au evergreen playground for tiio traveller in search of health and pleasure, is 'becoming' more and more popular with Australians and New Zealaqders. Apart from tho interest it holds^in spanning the Pacific by two routes, it offers the added attraction of similar congenial climates to those experienced .at home. Ten -weeks from: Sydney,", ■/or - eight weeks' from Auckland, arc needed. The expense ranges between a maximum first-class fare of £300 and a minimum second-class fare of £150. The route lies from Sydney to Auckland, Suva, Honolulu, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, Saii Francisco, Papeete, Karatonga', Wellington, Sydney. The best time of year to ensure a uniform climate is between February and May. The" Vancouver-San Francisco portion of the tour offers the visitor a unique opportunity- to study civic and rural development of Western Canada and Western America; a pleasing, fertile terrain traversed by a continuous highway of concrete; majestic,' forestclad slopes of the Coast and Olympic Ranges, dominated by four • giants, Baker, Bainier, Hood, and Shasta; the Fraser and Columbia Bivers, the world's greatest salmon streams; and four cities, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco, each of which is a symbol of Western progress in architecture, town-planning, and a growing sea-borne trade- in the products of mines, forests, and rivers. To those interested in industrial activity, the fish canneries, smelters, logging plants, and fruit packing equipments will add a practical value to the tour; COMFORTABLE^ TBAVEL. An outdoors, nature-loving people, w'lo spend their holidays in highway travel, have developed in the Pacific North-west facilities that supply every conceivable comfort for tho. traveller. The per capita ownership of motor-cars is highest in the world, due to the magnificent system of paved highways. First-class hotel accommodation may be had in largo cities and small towns from six shillings a night. Auto camps, at every town on the way, supply the traveller's needs in comfortable cabins from four shillings a night. 'The motorbuses on the Pacific Coast are the last word in comfort All the-coast cities are connected by.regular air mail services. The whole or any portion of the journey can be made by air at very moderate cost. ' The tour is so designed that it allows seventeen days between the arrival of the Aorangi and Niagara at Vancouver and the departure of the Tahiti and Makura at San Francisco. A quick trip to the Canadian Eockies and a visit to the Yosemite Valley could be arranged by accelerating the road journey on the Pacific Highway.