BISHOP JULIUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1924, Page 4

BISHOP JULIUS.

VISIT TO WEST COAST. KIND WELCOME TO YISITOHS. ( lIKISTf lICKC 11. duly 21. ‘•ft i- very remarkable that the oldtime hospitality all along: the West Coast- hn- suffered very little by changes in the people’s occupations and by increase in population," Archbishop Julius said yesterday, when speaking of hi- ten days' visit to that part of his diocese. "It is extraordinary how settlers there v. ill receive any number of broken-down travellers, complete si rangers. limling a welcome for eight or nine visitors in i no small liou-e."

The Archbishop found that several historical and interesting old centres ol’ population, once nourishing and prosperous— Humphrey Gully. Stafford Waimea. and Kumara—are last declining. ami soon will disappear. Ihe spirit of improvement is abroad in Hokitika, hut the advance is not very great since the Archbishop's previous ti-it. some years ago. except that a lew new buildings are being erected. Ihat the station has been shifted and that "a good many coats of paint have been added.”

lie noted tile tunnel's inlliicnco south of the Tereinnkau—as Greymonih is not in his diocese, he cannot speak oT the effect here in the advance of the sawiniliug industry. which is going southwards, and may reach Jackson’s Hay. The tunnel has not inlltienced the gold industry, which has given the West Const u place in the Dominion's industrial development, but the ArcliLldif p w;i- t dd that the fig American dredge on Kilim Flat, near Hokitika, is giving a handsome return, and flint il demonstrates the only way in which tn recover gold from the great Mats. The American gold-seekers are so well ronvimed of this that they eontemplnte erecting a big dredge on the Koss Flat further south of Hokitika. lie believe-. thiil one advantage arising Irom tile tunnel will lie the development of the tourist trallic. as the danger- of the (.Mil 1 Cage lire atobh'd. the trip

through li'" mountains i- made in comfort. and nc.itor- go through to tile Franz, Josef Glacier tile following day. Ho describes the Glacier Hotel at Waiho as very coiiifortaMe and well managed. under the direction of

Speaking of the Church, the Areli-lii-laip said that the di-rict south of Bass, almost from the lir-l had been in the hands of the Anglicans, A priest of the Human Catholic Church very rarely would find his way down there, otherwise the Anglie.'.n Church was’ tic only body that worked front one end of the district to the other, that wits from Hies to Jackson’s Bay. Other l.odies now were coining in slowly. and wore providing for their own people. Before long the Anglican ( liui'cli would have a church ill W.-iiho. Ii already ha 1 ( hnrehes at Wataroa and llari Mari. The llev .1. H. Voting

was (piiny splendid work there mainly in the old fashion. on hor-e-baok. vv hieli oiiahled him to vi-it peo|ile in tin' hackliloct.s. The llev A. I’nrehas. vicar ol Hokitika, would leave soon for Altar cl. and Akaroa should lie 1 1 : 1I>py in having such a mall. Hi- place at Hokitika would he taken by the llev J. I’erkiiis. of the I) ■ tiled ill diocese. Taking his car by rail to Otira. the Archbishop motored into South Westland. lie had yood weather, and enjoyed the trip. When he heard a stout young man complaining of the horrible journey, he wished that the grumbler had had to do it twenty years ago.