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A GLORIOUS WALK

FRANZ JOSEF TRACK

A New South Wales tourist writes, inter-alia, to the Otago Daily Times: "J am just what the press would term an ordinary “man of the street;” 1 have been touring your Dominion for about nine weeks with no hard and fast itinerary, and before leaving Australia could no more have written 'iu the following strain an impression after walking to the foot of Franz Josef Glacier than L could have flown:—“A glorious walk along a winding track by and ’Heath fallen and leaning tree trunks of velvety brown, merging into soft mossy green. The lorown and yellow leaf strewn path, splashed red here and there with I alien rata, winds curving and twisting through a ferny fairyland with a wealth of varying green, passing close to the roaring snow-swollen river of grey then by great trees, whose mammoth trunks are huge ferneries. Here a brook flows quietly almost silently by. On the right a cataract of moss-grown boulders; to the left a tree trunk is fallen with roots uplifted, moss covered and curving over a brown earthen grotto, reflected in a cool dark pool. Now a chaos of fallen trunk and stone, covered with moss and delicate fern, when green, velvet-brown, yellow, and red strive for the mastery, the path winding and reaching still onward and upward, through a keen crisp atmosphere to the foot of tlie snow-strewn mountains, whose white summits rising high above tile tree-emlo9ed ice-packed gorges seem pointing in their, purity the way to heaven—the whole scene and setting the very antithesis of that weird wonder of the North Island, the boiling hell-pools of llotorna!”

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Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1930, Page 5

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A GLORIOUS WALK Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1930, Page 5

A GLORIOUS WALK Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1930, Page 5

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