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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5289, 30 December 1946, Page 8

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I w Royal Hotel • Criterion Hotel auckland new plymouth Telegrams - - - Royal, Auckland Telegrams - - - - Criterion, New Plymouth Central Hotel Gisborne Hotel auckland gisborne Telegrams - - Central, Auckland Telegrams Gisborne Hotel, . yt l. i Gisborne ha hamilton0 6 Occidental Hotel wellington Telegrams Hamilton Hotel, Telegrams - - - - Occidental, Hamilton Wellington AND OTHER HOTELS TEROUGHOUT THE NORTH ISLAND. the FAMOUS CHAIN OF WAITEMATA HOTELS ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE BRENTS " The Holiday Hotel ROTORUA CENTRAH HEATING INSTALLED Next to Government Gardens and Baths. Handy for all sports.

J|OTEL ^UCKLAND (Fully Licensed.) Corner Queen and Customs Streets, Auckland. LARGEST HOTEL IN (THE CITY. 200 Bedrooms. CENTRALLY SITUATED IN THE HUB OF THE CITY OF AUCKLAND Telegrams: "Hotel Auckland," Auckland. gTATION JJOTEL AUCKLAND. Opposite Central Railway Station. BEAUTIFUL HARBOUR VIEW. New Building, Tastefully Decorated and Furnisbed. TELEPHONE AND HOT AND COLD 'WATER IN EVERY ROOM. Moderate Tariff. COURTESY — EFFICIENCY — ATTENT'ION. Telegrams: "Station Hotel," Auckland. RENTAL CARS NEW Fleet Rental Cars, large and small. — Phone 542, Royal Garage, , Fenton Street. l — — — I SEE Rotorua by Rental Car. Late model V8 Fords, Chevs. and Singera available. — Royal Garage, Fenton Street, Bhone 542. LAUNCH MERLIN MOKOIA ISLAND TRIP Twice Daily

Launch Departs: 9.30 a.m., 2. lo p.m. Returns: Noon, 4.30 p.m. 3/- RETURN Moonlight Excursion to Mokoia Is. , Launch Departs: 8-9 o'clock. Returns > midnight — 3/- return. EVERY SUNDAY FROM DEC. 29th FISHING PARTIES by arrangement or-enquire at wharf. D. W. MUIR, 6 Union St., Rotorua. i ROTORUA'S LEADING JEWELLERY & SOUVENIR DEPOT Unbreakable Watch Glasses, any size FITTED AT SHORTEST NOTICE. * 9 ct, 18 ct. and PLATINUM WEDDING RINGS Beautifully Chased. JEWELLERY . AND SPECTACIf] REPAIRS of any description undertaken. ENGRAVING All Work Carried Out on Premises — At — A. H0BBSJ ewellers, TUTANEKAI STREET. ONLY 36 miles awayl a good road — scenery unrivalled — and then, Orakei-Korako, the Place of Adorning.

WHAKAREWAREWA A Remarkable Area Buseg depart regularly from Po*t Offico FARE 6d EACH WAY — WHAKAREWAREWA ls an engrossing csntra of thermal activity and Maori life, just a few minutes by bus from tbe town. Here you will see mud pools forming and — reforming "lilies" and t'cat's eyes" or unceasingly sonding their restless "frogs" leaping through the steam; hissing steam vents, awe-lnspiring geysers shooting superheated and scintillating water high into the air. You will see multi-coloured and glistening terraces forming under the action of the mineralised waters, sizzling "frying pans" and other remarkable sights. In and around It all may be seen the picturesque Maori guides conductlng parties of visitors; brown-skinned children leaping or diving for pennles, and the more phlegmatic wahines busy around the steam vents that provide free cooking facillties for I the village. ? OKERE FALLS Motor and Launch OKERE FALLS, HINEMOA STEPS AND CAVE and an hour's cruiie on Lake Rotoiti. FARE: 8/- RETURN — Guide Fee 6d * On thls fascinating and picturesque trip you skirt the gthores of Lake Rotorua, pass through the Maori village iof Mourea and cross the Ohau Channel to Okere. A short walk takes you down the Hinemoa Steps to the Okere Falls and Hinemoa Cave. Returntng to the wharf you join the launch which takes you for an bour's cruisfe across the placid waters of Lake Rotoiti and to the many j beautiful fern-covered bays. Cars depart 2.00 p.m. daily from the Road Services Offlca, i Tutanekal Street. Mor'ning and Afternoon Teas available.

IN and AROUND j ROTORUA ' | Where to Visit when you h&v© | \ time to make Short Trips I se^^e AIR For the modest'sum of ten shillings we oflfer you a' flight over Rotorua. The sights which impress you so much from tbe ground are irifinitely more wonderful from the air. The baths, gardens^ and playgrounds are spread beneath like an intricate relief map. Lake Tarawera and surrounding Lakes, 30/-. THE WAIKATO AVIATION CO., LTD. * AIRPORT — ROTORUA. S. J. BLACKMORE - - - - Pilot. Private Address: Wairoa Rd., Phone 350K house; 866 Aerodrome. J Or all Hotels and Booking Offices.

ENCHANTING I INSPIRING! ORAKEI-KORAKO The Place of Adorning . The Delightful Trip to Amazing Aladdin's the JVorld's Greatest Cave / Terraces Tremendous River* Fearsome Underground a Rapids, etc.: Geysers 36 miles of good road v BOOK AT N.Z.R. ROAD SERVICES, TUTANEKAI STREET

WHEN tbe Tarawera eruption blew the famous Pink and Wbite it was considered a major calamity. Nature, however, bad the balance. At tbe-recently opened thermal area of Orakei-Korak terraces as great in extent as tbe lost ones and presenting ev'ery tion from glittering white to deepest jade. The Orakei-Korako be considered in two sections. Firstly, the absorbing interest of j out where the heavily-timbered crown on the Horohoro rampajB back scene for the smiling farms of the model native settlen® evergreen glades of the pine plantations of Foxests' ProducjH phantasy during a pause at the sacred "Witch's Rock"; Pohatui^^H in the world; Atiamuri Rapids, Rainbow Fall, Inspiration Po^H rapids on the Waikato River. All provide fresh points of inte* is the unequalled area of Orakei-Korako itself. Refreshmen'^H pleasantly situated tea-room, and competent guides ferry visito* River in a steel-cabled ferry and conduct them around the where the great river provides a gentle nndertone to the fascinating orchestration of Nature that is Orakei-Korako, "T^H with its crashing crescendo of colour, beauty and the_ fine Aladdin's Cave. It can fairly%e claimed that Orakei-Koral^B thermal activity existent in the world and much that is found nH fumeroles and pools, shimmering champagne cauldrons, tierM terraces crowned by the solid silica buttress known as the GoldH piled bn colour. — fl 9.15 a.m. FARE 15/- GH