FORESTS AND GLACIERS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1929, Page 2

FORESTS AND GLACIERS

SOUTH ISLAND CHARMS.

AUCKLAND. April 10,

New Zealand possesses four outstanding tourist attractions, according to Colonel W. S. Tupper, of San Francisco, who lias been invited by the New Zealand Government and the Union Steam Ship Company to visiti the Dominion preparatory to codueting a lecture tour of the United States to advertise the country’s scenic attractions. His four star attractions are. stated by himself as follows:

“In the South Island are great rain forests of a type found nowhere else in the world,” ho said. “What imagination pictures as green, luxuriant, tropical forest is found in temperate New Zealand. I have travelled in ten or a dozen strictly tropical lands, so I know. Then there are the Smith Island’s wondrous glaciers. rising right out of the forests. They present sights which one expects to be found only in tlie Arctic regions. In the North Island are great thermal regions of unique and amazing variety, and the fourth outstanding attraction is the marvellous glowworm caves. There are great eaves in the United States, Culm and elsewhere, but nowhere else can one find eaves painted overhead with a million stars.”