ATTRACTING TOURISTS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1929, Page 5

ATTRACTING TOURISTS

BIG SCHEME IN HAND. Chancres have been made m the Mount Cook Motor Co., Ltd., by which it has been reconstructed, formerly, it was a private concern owning the Hermitage, at Mount Cook, as well as certain transportation services. In addition the company owmkl the White Star Hotel at Queenstown. Within the last few weeks the Mount Cook Motor Company has been changed to a public company, called the Mount Cook Tourist Company. The capital to be subscribed is to provide for taking an interest in Hotel Cargen, Auckland, a spa at Rotorua, a new hotel at Queenstown, and other interests. The new company is also interested in the Chateau at Tongnriro, which will be officially opened from November 1 to November 5, for which function many invitations have been issued. Tlie Mount Cook Tourist Company will also* have an interest in the Grand Hotel at Dunedin, -and negotiations are in train for acquiring other interests ol a similar nature in other towns and cities of New Zealand. ■ The new spa at Rotorua will he the largest of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. Tt is proposed to erect a handsome building containing, in addition to other rooms, 150 bedroofns and 150 bathrooms. IThere will also be all the attractions of a modern and up-to-date tourist building. Syvimming pools will be provided jas well as Roman slipper baths, similar to those which have been placed in Springside, Ilinemoa, and Rarakai private hotels at Helensville. Medical men and masseurs and masseuses will have modern premises, fitted up with modern appliances, within the building, which will also contain the usual places ol indoor games and amusements, including dancing. Outside, in spacious grounds, it I is proposed to lay out tennis lawns and

howling and croquet greens. In short, it will be a spa in every sense of the word. Tourists will, in future, he picked up at Auckland or the Bluff, as the case mi ay be. and piloted by the new company right through the Dominion.