BEAUTIFUL WESTLAND
AN AUCKLANDER’S PRAISE
CORDIAL APPRECIATION
Air A. F. Lunn, President of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, who was a visitor to Hokitika and district a few weeks ago, carried away evidently very pleasant recollections of bis stay in Westland. The memories be stored up lias prompted him to write in the following cordial strain to the Westland Chamber of Commerce, and we are sure bis remarks will be greatly appreciated as coming from such an impartial source: — “During my recent tour through parts of New Zealand, I spent a few days running down from Hokitika to the Franz Joseph Glacier in company with my friend, Air James King, and my object in writing you is to express the decided opinion that the, beauty of the Glacier as well as its ' striking features, can bo equnllel but certainly not surpassed by the beauties of the Swiss Glaciers with which I am to some extent familiar. “In addition to the beauty and the field for alpine climbing* you have the added attraction of thermal wonders in the neighbourhood in the shape of the splendid bath just at the foot of the Glacier, and the drive down from Hokitika to the Accommodation House is through some of the most beautiful bush that I have met
in New Zealand. “I am satisfied that were the beauties of this district more widely known by means of well written and illustrated circulars or booklets, you would in a comparatively short time find that your tourist trade would increase rapidly. “However, there is one little drawback to the rapid and comfortable approach from Hokitika, and that is the fording of the largest rivers in Hood time. If you can stimulate the Government to the comparatively small expenditure needed to bridge three or four of the rivers, I think you would have grounds for anticipating in the coming season a very large motor traffic on that road, sufficient in fact to induce the Government to seriously consider the extension of your railway for another seventy miles. AVith compliments.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1921, Page 3
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342BEAUTIFUL WESTLAND Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1921, Page 3
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