WESTLAND SCENERY

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1929, Page 2

WESTLAND SCENERY

(Christchurch Press). , The Rt. Hon. L. S. Amery, who toured South Westland, When on a Dominions tour, has given great praise to Westland scenery. Mr Amery . crossed the Alps into ’W estland, and he said:— “There is nothing in the voilcl that I know of to compare with the striking contrast between the almost tropical verdure of the West Coast bush and the great Franz Josef Glacier descending right through it frhm the world of snow above. The Franz Josef Glacier is certainly, taking it all round., the most beautiful glacier I have seen anywhere.” A great lover of New Zealand, Mr James Cowan, the well-known writer, says:—“Particularly beautiful is the forest bordering the Franz Josef Glacier. On either side of the half-mile-wide tongue of ice the rocky scarps riso up, smooth-polished by the ancient ice for a space, then richly wooded in soft delicate gradations of green to the ridgy summits, and flashing with waterfalls. In the summer the blood-red iblossoms of the rata fire the mountain sides with a gorgeous crimson—a marvellous frame of colour to the pure-white picture. As a spectacle, the Fox Glacier (seventeen miles beytmd) is even grander than the Franz Josef.”

Such high praise bears out the .views of casual visitors. Tourists and holiday makers to Westland are increasing in number year by yearlast season (being a- record. To draw attention to the attractions of Westland, there is a stand at the Christchurch Winter Show where pictures and photographs of the great range of scenery to be seen there are displayed. There are some splendid examples of the photographer’s art, depicting the glorious scenes of • the mountains and the glaciers. Where Nature lends her aid further in wonderful reflections in beautiful lakes, the. scenes on view are entrancing. Altogether there is a great panorama o. Westland scenery,- and the fdispla> will induce many to make their next holiday jaunt in ")Vestland.

At the stand, particulars of tours and trips by rail to Hokitika and motor to all parts of the district will be obtainable, and literature dealing with ’ Beautiful Westland will be distributed. Our Westland cousins are to be welcomed-in this new enterprise to advertise their district, and no doubt the result will encourage them to repeat such a pleasing form of advertising year by year.