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Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1930, Page 4

Vi itii the holiday season approaching, intending vi si tons and tourists might well he advised, that so far as Westland is concerned, greatly improved roads have hern provided over the year for their use and attraction. The loads generally are in very good order. Since the highways department ha,s set a. standard in road maintenance there has been all round improvement, and in general there is a good surfaced road to mark all the chief highways of the district. In particular a great service lias been dune with the bridging of the rivers. This is must noticeable in the southern district, whore now, all major streams as far as Wehoka are bridged. The few remaining crossings likeiv to delay or impede traffic, whore small water eoiimes are involved, are either being attended to. or are earmarked for early attention. It is possible now for very speedy trips to and from the south to lie made, there being no serious impediments to delay the journey. Holiday makers also have at their disposal well-found motor Services which nt*e equally well Conducted. i’rivate ehternrise has Certainly doiie its share in catering for tho touring traffic, whether it he in the matter of transport Or accommodation. At alt the chief stopping places good accommodation Is provided. Even in the more remote places, special attention has been given to t’' n comfort of visitors and there shook! be no complaints on that score. Probably the one thing still remaining to be don 0 , is move publicity. Much lire iheen dene in that respect, hut visiters, particularly oversea travellers, often remark little or nothing is known of the uninue glae : er and other mountain extractions of Westland. Tho thermal and other parts of th n Bun in inn are (riven sop-ial prominence in outside publi cations, while at soi"" of the lending hooking offices verv little information about. Westland tonPs is volunteered. This, of course, is an old complaint, in fact a | recurring one, though those in authority have promised to remedy it,. Still, the comnlaint is made very, often by visitors, and on that account in the public interests, it should be ventilated again. A good deal lias been done hv local effort and expens" in advertising, but the print appears to be that there should not be any letting up in that scheme of publicity. There are always fr-'sh travellers to he enticed to the dV/riet, and the spreading of information should not o"ase. Tt, is hv that means onlv that mere and more people can he attracted to the district, and more made r ' the holiday season in which to add to the general prosperity of the district.