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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5301, 14 January 1947, Page 8

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Eoyal Hotel Criterion Hotel auckland new plymouth Telegranis - - - Soyal, Auckland Telegrams - - - - Criterion, New Plymouth ?t^-t Gisborne Hotel auckland gisborne Felegrams - - Central, Auckland Telegrams - - - Gisborne Hotel, Hamilton Hotel . „ Gisborne hamilton Occidental Hotel wellington Telegrams - - - Hamilton Hotel, Telegrams - - - - Occidental, Hamilton Wellington AND OTHER HOTELS THROUGHOUT THE NORTH ISLAND. the famous chain of WAITEMATA HOTELS ai.ways at your service ~B REN T S 1 he. Holiday Hotel ROTORUA CENTRAL HEATING INSTALLED • Next to Government Gardens and Baths. Handy for all sports.

}{OTEL AUCKLAND (Fully Licensed.) » Corner Queen and Customs Streets, Auckland. LARGEST HOTEL IN THE CITY. 200 Bedrooms. CENTRALLY SITUATED IN THE HUB OP THE CITY OF AUCKLAND Telegrams : "Hotel Auckland," Auckland. gTATION J-JOTEL 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 — ATTENTTON. Telegrams: "Station Hotel," Auckland. TANIWHA SPRINGS 1 THE , TRADITIONAL HOME OF A MAN-EATING WATER MONSTER Big, bubbling springs _ and the greatest vc-lume of spring water in the North Island. It is the actual source of the Awahou River and contains Trout galore. • Here you- will find Nature at her loveliest. 7 MILES FROM ROTORUA P.O. ON THE HAMURANA ROAD. LAUNCH MERLIN MOKOIA ISLAND TRIF Twice Daily Launch Departs: 9.30 a.m., 2.15 p.m. Returns: Noon, 4.30 p.m. 3/- RETURN Moonlight Excursion to Mokoia Is. _ Launch Departs: 8 o'clock. Returns midnight — 3/- return. EVERY SUNDAY Moonlight Excursions Sundays 8 p.m. Picnic Parties by arrangement. D. W. MUIR, 6 Union St., Rotorua. 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 SPECTACSE REPAIRS of any description undertaken. , ENGRAVING All Work Carried Out on Premises — At — A. H 0 B » s, J ewellers, TUTANEKAI STREET.

WHAKAREWAREWA |* A Remarkable Area | Bu*ea depart regularly from Po»t 0£Sc« I FARE 8d EACH WAY I ' 2 WHAKAREWAREWA is an engrossing centre of thermal 2 activity and Maori life, just a few minutes by bus from z the town. Here you will see mud pools forming and reforming "lilies" and "cat's eyes" or unceasingly sending thelr restless "frogs" leaplng through the steam; hlssing 2 steam vents, awe-inspiring geysers shooting superheated and sclntillating water high into the air. You will see ! multi-coloured and glistening terraces forming under the aotion of the mineralised waters, sizzllng "fryihg pans" and other remarkable sights. In and around it all may be seen the picturesque Maori guldes conducting parties of visitors; brown-skinned children leaping or diving for pennies, and the more phlegmatic wahines husy around the steam vents that provlde free cooking facilltles for the vlllage. OKERE FALLS Motor and Launch OKERE FALLS, HINEMOA STEPS AND CAVE nnd an hour's cruise on Lake Rotoiti. FARE": 8/- RETURN — Guide Fee 6d On this fascinating and picturesque trip you skirt the tihorea of Lake Rotorua, pas3 through the Maori village cf Mourea and cross the Ohau Channel to Okere. A short walk takes you down the Hinemoa Steps to the . Okere Falls and Hinemoa Cave. Returning to the wharf you Join the launch which takes you for an hour's cruise across the placid waters of Lake Rotoiti and to the many beautiful fern-covered bays. Cars depart 2.00 p.m. daily from the Road Services Offlcs, Tutanekal Street. Mor'nina and Afternoon Teas avallable. l

IN and AROUND ROTORUA Where to Visit when you have time to make Short Trips AIR ' For the modest sum of ten shillings we offer you a flight over Rotorua. The sights which impress you so much from the ground are infinitely 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.t LTD. AIRPORf — ROTORUA. . S. J. BLACKMORE - - - - Pilot. Private Address: Wairoa Rd., Phone 350K house; 866 Aerodrome. Or all Hotels and Booking Offices.

ENCHANTING ! — INSPIRINGS ORAKEI-KORAKO ' The Place of Adorning The Delightful Trip to Amazing Aladdin's the ^orld's Greatest Cave Terraces Tremendous Riveij Fearsome Underground Rapids, etc.: Geysers 36 miles of good toad BOOK AT N.Z.R* ROAD SERVICES, TUTANEKAI STREET

"^yHEN the Tarawera eruption blew the famous Pink and White Terraces to? _ it was considered a major calamity. Nature, however, had a way of ^ the balance. At the recently opened thermal area of Orakei-Korako has beentfj terraces as great in extent as the lost ones and presenting every conceivable ^ tion from ghttermg white to deepest jade. The Orakei-Korako trip, howevej "l' two..sep.tlo/ls- Firstly, the absorbing interest of scenery on tkj out where the heavily-timhered crown on the Horohoro ramparts throws a f thV^llng. farms of the m«^el native settlement at its M evergreen glades of the pme plantations of Forests' Produets, Ltd.; a tofj phantasy during a pause at the sacred "Witch's Rock"; Pohaturoa Peak, trnly5! tiamuri Rapids Rainbow Fall, Inspiration Point and Whag, rap^s on the Waikato River. All provide fresh points of interest. SecondW unequalled^ area of Orakei-Korako itself. Refreshment may he had j R^vpv ftS«feoie Kieair^°m' and competent guides ferry visitors dcross the i J tc ^ed ferr7 and conduct them. around the valley of enchjJ where the great river provides a gentle undertone to the beautiful, bizfj S+w °^ stratlon of Nature that is Orakei-Korako, "The Place of A ' Alid^n'aCr^nSr Lrescen2°. 7f £olour- beauty and the fine fairy-like loveg Aladdin s Cave. It can fairly, be claimed that Orakei-Korako has every jjj fuSoIeq' the .world,and much that is found nowhere else. ^ fumeroles and pools, shimmering champagne cauldrons, tier on tier of phedon cMoui-6 solid silica buttress known as the "Golden Fleeee," ■ 9.15 a.m. FARE 15/- Guide Fee1!