CLEVEDON.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 244, 23 January 1917, Page 3

CLEVEDON.

For fishing, shooting and sport few places can excel Clevedon. It is a pleasant, compact and well arranged township, and if so inclined the visitor can either tak'e advantage of the steamer " Hirere" which runs regularly from Auckland—owned by the way by the Clevedon Steam Navigation Co., Ltd.- to Clevedon and Maraotai. At Clevedon there is an excellent newly-built boardinghouse, where every accommodation can be obtained, the proprietress of which is Mrs Paton. From the hillside glorious views can be obtained of the surrounding country, where its dotted homesteads showing their red roofs serve to suggest a peaceful prosperity. By the Beautiful Wairoa which wends its way through some of the best dairying country in the Auckland Province large orchards planted years ago are yielding abundant fruit. Now and then the steady noise of a pleasure launch and the merry laugh from its passengers give some idea that the folk in the district know how to enjoy themselves. Though Clevedon is seven miles from the main line the township is well served by telephone communication. Good motor roads enable a car to run swiftly to the Papakura station or reversely to Maraetai by the sea where the traveller can rejoin the steamer for Auckland. World wide travellers who have chanced to visit this little spot regard Clevedon as an ideal place for the sportsman farmer. There are those perhaps who look upon it as " much like other places" but then that is confirmed by the truth of the saying that " familiarity breeds contempt," and that its beauty is best appreciated by those who have travelled and are in a position to judge a place by comparison and experience. Fishing can be freely enjoyed by the angler while those who take pleasure in riding or driving will find much to interest them in the district. To those who have never been to Clevedon it is well worth a visit and a delightful view from the hills after passing through the township can be obtained of the Wairoa as it joins the sea. Formerly it was known as South Wairoa, but as this name occasioned trouble by other places having similar names it was changed to Clevedon. It is understood that this was suggested by a late resident of Clevedon in Somerset (England) a place which is also associated with dairying.