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Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 246, 9 February 1906, Page 2

A recent Loudon weekly pacer aayef —" One of the chief centres of football is the beautiful little city of Aneklqndj Throughout New Zealand there is more outdoor hie than in But if this is true cf the bleak Sonin, it is far more true of the “far North.* 9 The town and tbe whole district ot Auckland have the climate of a subtropic island, damp and (so it is said) relaxing, but exquisitely soft and mild, and with a most equable temperature—never really hot in summer nor really cold;in There are no burning heate ntifiing clams, but oondnual eaabree.’es tempering the suns heat. A fine Auckland winter is something to remember in dreams. The atmosphere clear and yet rich in colour, gives the most enchanting effects to the whole wide panorama of gulf and harbours and numerous islands, the little cresent shaped bays, clay cliffs and the three* peaked purple volcanoe of and the scores of grass-grown voiejj® cones that stud the whole this “Corinth of the South.” Thera never wST a spot more exp-easly de* signed by nature for open-air living ( and tbe inhabitants take advantage of tbeir chances.” What twaddle 1