Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, DEC. 4, 1900. Holiday Time.

Manawatu Herald, 4 December 1900, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, DEC. 4, 1900. Holiday Time.

Shortly the holidays will be here, and like harvest time we all need to make hay while the sun shines. Not only do we, the dwellers near the coast, believe in the enjoyment to be obtained from an encampment at the seaside, but many others do who reside miles away. Provision has been made for the family man by the cottages at the Heads, but we have not heard of any provision being made for those who are not married, but who can appreciate the seabreeze and ocean bathing just as much. A cottage is the last place in the world that they would care for a holiday, but a tent, a sample of real camping out would prove a great attraction, if some of the minor evils I could be avoided. We have before I advocated the providing of tents and camp equipment by some one who would superintend the erection and, if possible the catering. Young men I from up-country with three or four days' holidays would be glad to camp out on the sea coast, if they were spared the bother and loss of time in securing all that is needed. What I is wanted is that a telegram to the canvas-town proprietor saying a tent for one or two or four needed by a certain night for 30 many days. The renters of these tents would be able to go straight to their temporary ; homes from the railway and could leave them at the last moment. I That would be thorough enjoyment and only blankets and a change of clothes their only impedimenta. j Surely there must be some one who could take this business up. It would be to the interest of the cottage owners at the Sanatorium to see to it, as the enjoyment of the young J folks would be the best of advertisements to the houses for their parents. A rough building would need erecting for the storage of camp equipment. We feel very certain that facilities such as we have sketched would prove an irresistible attraction.