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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 2, Issue 125, 5 September 1913, Page 4

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Sea*side Summer Resorts, j A co;re£pocdent v.ri e9 a3 fjlloas:— "Your 'occasional correspondent,' rejo'ting the Patumahce-Waiau Pa football match, played on Mr McLarin's Kainui estate, at Waiau Pa, has a short paragraph making reference to health-giving spots in that district. As the summer holidays are fast approaching ; t may prove of interest to some of your rfaders to give a brief description of some ot these planes. It is astonishing to me that during the holiday s ason the Pukekohe, Bombay and Waiuku residents ecially the rr.eichants and tradespeople lookirg for r.st and health) neglect these beauty spots within essy twj houts' riding distance from their homep, and rush off to the ci'y tor a apeil or "rest" as they call it. A week or two with their families spent at any one of the places 1 am abcut to de.cribe imperfectly, I admit with the health-jiving recreations of sea bathing, lishing, etc., would send them back to their duties with renewed vigojr, and at less expense than even if they stopped at heme. KA.RAKA POINT.

A very pleasant spot for a sea-si-le holiday is Mr I. Clark's property, known as Karaka Print, at Waiau Pa. ]he distance from Pukekohe is ab-jut 15 miles, and the road is oce of the best summer ioads for driving, riding, cycling or motoring. There is a nice white sandy beach at this place, with Eome slight shelter of pohutukawa trees, which, when in flower at Cbristmas time, look very pretty indeed. Qu'.te a number of Pukekohe residents know this paiticular resort, and have made uie of it in tr.e past, and Mr C'.aik has been more than kind in permittirg visitors to camp on the beach, maka use of his paddocks, etc., all free of cost. Unfortunately, some of them did rot appreciate this kindness and repayed it with vandalism of a petty sori, But some people do not appreciate the beauties of Nature, and have the bump of cestiuctivenees and carelessness highly developed. To check this sort of thing it would be advisable, in the interests of the well-tehaved, if Mr Clark made a small charge instead of barring holiday-seekers altogether, which 1 hear he thinks of doing. HAKBOUR VIEW ESIATE. This is without d.ubt one of the beauty spots on the Manukau harbour, ard is owned by Mr J. W. McLsrin. It is situated in the Kahawau parish, about four miks from Packington (now known as Glenbrook), and about tjie same distance from Pukekohe as Karaka Point, only by a different road. It is about 10 milej by rosd from Waiuku, and as a sea-side resort fcr Waiuku and Pukekohe residents it cannot be beaten. The property is about three-quarters surrounded by water, with about six mil-.s of sea frontage. There is about a mile of flat whita sandy beach on one part of it; tfce safest possible place for children bathing, with plenty of sheltered spots tor camping at other places on the estate. There is tine fishing to ba got eff the rocks, especially at the entrance to the Mauku rapic's, with shell fish of all sorts on tftese rocks when the tides are One can fish at any time, whether the tide is in or out. There are pohutikawa tree 3 intermingled with ether native shrub", ani blended with ornsmental plantations of pines, wattles, etc., making a very harmonious and pleasing whole, while the views of tho Manukau harbour, extending to Awhitu ar.d in tha direction Waiuku arj unique. Seeing that the parish is named after the kahawai fijh is a sufficient guarantee of the fishing. There are other places on the hßrboar, but theaa are more accessible to the districts 1 have mentioned, and 1 am satisfied that twu or three weeks spent at any of these places about New Year's time nould he the best holidays for the "kiddies," best for "tha missus" at.d real good for the "old man." And from a health-giving point of view far ahead of a trip to the city, or the pictures, or a ride in the tram cars, etc. And the expense is trifling.