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Free Lance, Volume V, Issue 233, 17 December 1904, Page 23 (Supplement)

NEW Hft| ZEALAND Government Railways.

TOURIST EXCURSION TICKETS (FIKST CLASS) Are issued daily (Sundays excepted) throughout the year, as under — (a.) Available over lines of BOTH ISLANDS for SIX WEEKS from date of issue £8 (b.) Available over NORTH ISLAND lines for FOUR WEEKS from date of issue £5 (c.) Available over MIDDLE ISLAND lines for FOUR WEEKS from date of issue £6 These tickets are available ovei Government lines only, and aie obtainable as follows :— a and b at Auckland, Onehunga, Eotorua, Thames, Napier, Hastings, Woodville, Masterton, Wanganui, New Plymouth, and Wellington ; a and c at Lyttelton, Chustchurch, Ashburton, limaru, Oamaru, Palmeiston, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Mosgiel, Milton, Lawrence, Clinton, Invercargill, and Bluff Railway Stations. Tourist Excursion Tickets may be extended for any period not exceeding tout weeks on payment of an extension fee of £1 10s. per week, or portion of a week, on application to the Stationmaster at any of the above-mentioned stations before the expiration of the oiiginal ticket.

{Thermal Springs . . . of the IRortb 3slan6. ROTORUA HOT LAKES, WAITOMO CAVES, TE AROHA AND OKOROIRE HOT SPRINGS. ROUND TRIP EXCURSION TICKETS aie issued thioughout the }tai, as undei — 1. Fiom Auckland to Thames bj iail, Thames to Auckland by steamei, or ine ie>sa. ROUND TRIP: First Class, 2is.; Second Class, 15s 2. From Auckland to Eotoiua, thence to Thames by iail, Thames to Auckland by steamer, or nee icn>a ROUND TRIP : First Class, 32s 6d. ; Second Class, 21s. 3. Auckland to Hangatiki, Hangntiki to Rotoiua, and llotoma to Thames by iail, Thames to Auckland by steamei, or vice veisa ROUND TRIP: First Class, 395.; Second Class, 245. These tickets aie available foi three months from date of issue The journej may be broken at any station at which the train is timed to stop after travelling ten miles from the original stai ting -station, prowded the specified time foi which the tickets aie available is not exceeded For comemence of lailway pa^engei -, devious of wbiting the Waitomo Caves, and staying ovei night, a cottage with a caretakei in charge has beenpio\ided at Hangatiki Thecaietakei will provide hotwatei and furnish stretchers at a chaige of Is foi each person Visitors, lequne to pio\ ide their own food and blankets.

©®®®®(«XS)®®(^^ 5k Soutiwen JUps, THE ICE REGION \ AND "AORANGI," \ .• OF NEW ZEALAND THE CLOUD PIERCER. THROUGH BOOKING TO MOUNT COOK. Return Excursion Tickets foi the through journey bj iail to Fanlie, thence b> coach to Mount Cook Heimitage, returning aa hurou or Fairhe, or bv iail to Kurow, thence by coach to Mount Cook Heimitage, returning via Fairlie, will he issued between the Ist No\embei and 31bt Maich, available for letuin foi three months (subject to the coach portion of the journey being- completed on oi befoie 30th Apnl). RETURN FARES (including Coach Fares) : First Class Second Clas--Fiom Dunedin . . . . . . . £4 17 6 £4 5 0 Fiom Chiistchuich .. .. .. 4 10 0 426 The journej maj be bioken it any station it which the tiam is timed to 'top after tra\ ellinjf twenty fi\e miles from the onyinal s>taiiin»;-*.tatioii, piouded the specified time for which the tickets aie available is not exceeded THE GRANDEUR OF THE SCENERY OF THIS DISTRICT HAS NO PARALLEL OUTSIDE THE POLAR REGIONS.

flanmef Plains Hot Springs. G§^* THROUGH BOOKING BY RAIL. . — ) AND COACH TO THE SPRINGS. Return Excuision Tickets to Hanmer Plains, available foi retuin for thiee months, will be issued daily thioughout the yeai from Inveicaigill and Dunedin, and fiom Chiistchuich, Papanui, and Kaiapoi daily, between Ist October and dOth Apnl (and theieafter thrice weekly, viz., on Tuesdays, Thuisdays, and Satuidays). RETURN THROUGH FARE (by Rail and Coach) : FIRST CLASS. Fiom Chiistchuich and Papanui .. .. .. ..£lBO From Kaiapoi .. .. .. .. .. .. 160 Fiom Dunedin. . .. .. .. . . 3 5 0 From Invercargill . . . . . 4 5 0 The journey may be bioken at any station at which the tiam is tuned to stop aftei travelling ten miles fiom the oiiginal starting-station, piovided the specified time for which the tickets are available is not exceeded.