LETTERS TO EDITOR

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 102, 17 May 1937, Page 8

LETTERS TO EDITOR

AKARANA,

An Unknown .Beauty Spot t (To the Editor.) Sir, — About a year or two before the earthquake Mr JHorace Cotterill wrote an article, which he entitied ' ' The "Beautifui Unknown." It appeared, with dllustrations, in the Chrietmas uumber of a Napier weekiy paper that was then in circulation. 1 asked an old identity where the place referred to was, and he answered, "X'll show you on Sunday." So on the following Sunday after church we walked together along Carlyle street to Chaucer road eouth, up it to its intersection with Spencer road, and there, just below the eemetery, which at th'at timo had some beautiful old trees just ihere, we climbed over a stone wall and found ourselves in a well-graded track, in places fully 20 feet wide. About 100 yards up we stopped to look at the beautiful view there is of Cape Kidnappers, far away in the distance. In front of ua, on almost level ground, was a row of fine old bluegums. How travellers from Australia wtfuld ' have enjoyed that sight. It would remind them' of their homeland. At the t'op end the road wae blocked by the old disused avbiry building — now demolished. Below was the extenslve green lawn and at that time a pathway in the centre made from the old hand-made bricks taken from the well that had supplied the 65th Regiraent with water for washing purposes. We were on the old Military road leading down from the old Barracks on Hospital Hill to "Soapsuds Gully." Aro Napier 's people quite indifferent to thie grand old historical road that they cannot open it upf Anckland people are spending thousands upon a new seenic road. Can't Napier spend a few hundreds? — Yours. etc..

Napier, May 35, 1937.