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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5304, 17 January 1947, Page 8

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I ^ Royal Hotel Criterion Hotel AUCKLAND NEW PLYMOUTH Telegrams - - - Royal, Auckland Telegrams^- ply"mo"ut^riterion' Central Hotel Gisborne Hotel AUCKLAND GISBORNE Telegrams - - Central, Auckland Telegrams Gisborne Hotel, __ ... tt x i Gisborne H amdton o e Occidental Hotel HAMILTON WELLINGTON i Telegrams - - - Hamilton Hotel, Telegrams - - - - Occidental, | Hamilton Wellington I AND OTHER HOTELS THROUGHOUT THE NORTH ISLAND. THE FAMOUS CHAIN OF W AITEMATA HOTELS ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE _____ :

JJOTEL AUCKLAND (Fully Licensed.) Corner Queen and Customs Streets, Auckland. LARGEST HOTEL IN THE CITY. 200 Bedrooms. CENTRALLY SITUATEDHN THE HUB OF THE CITY OF AUCKLAND Telegrams i "Hotel Auckland," Auckland. gTATION J|OTEL | AUCKLAND. Opposite Gentral Railway Station. ^BEAUTIFUL HARB.OUR VIEW. New Building, Tastefully Decorated and Furnished. _ __-.rv TELEPHONE AND HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM. Moderate Tariff. COURTESY — EFFICIENCY — ATTENTION. Telegrams: "Station Hotel," Auckland.

TANIWHA SPRINGS ! the traditional home of a man-eating water monster Big, bubbling springs _ and the greatest volume 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 ber loveliest. 7 MILES FROM ROTORUA P.O. ON THE HAMURANA ROAD. ■- tU

LAUNCH MERLIN FOR HIRE MOKOIA ISLAND PASSENGER SERVICE WED., SAT., SUNDAY. Departs: 9.30 a.m., 2.15 p.m. Returns: 12 noon, 4.30 p.m. 3/- RETURN Fishing Parties catered for, rods and licenses oii Launch — £4 per day, £2/10/- half-day. Moonlight Excursions Sundays 8 p.m. Picnic Parties by arrangement. D. W. MUIR, Prop., 6 Union St., Rotorua, or enquire at Wharr.

I BRENTS | | The Holiday Hotel 4 ROTORUA J'| 3yt • | CENTRAL HEATING INSTALLED j l Next to Government Gardens and Baths. Handy for all sports. | I 1

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 SPECTACBE REPAIRS of any description undertaken. ENGRAVING All Work Carried Out on Premises — At — a. h0bbsJ ToTXT/alT OTCf L TUTANEKAI STREET.

WHAKAREWAREWA f A Remarkable Area | 3use« depart rogularly from Po«t Offic® | FARE 6d EACH WAY | WHAKAREWAREWA is an engrossing centre of thermal | activity and Maori life, just a few minutes by bus from | tbe town. Here you will see mud pools forming and ? ireforming "lilies" and "cat's eyes" or unceasingly sending ^ thelr restless "frogs" leaping through the steam; hissing 1 staam vents, awe-inspiring geysers shootlng superheated 2 and scintillating water high into the air. You will see b multl-coloured and glistening terraces forming under-the action of the mineralised waters, sizzling "frying pans" and othbr remarkable sights. In and around it all may be seen the picturesque Maori guides conducting parties of visitors; brown-skinned children leaping or diving for pennies, and the more phlegmatic wahines busy around the steam vents that provide free cooking facilitieB for the vlllage. OKERE FALLS Motor and Launcls OKERE FALLS, HINEMOA STEPS AND CAVE *md an hour's cruise on Lake Rotoiti. FARE: 8/- RETURN — ' Guide Fce 6d On this fascinating and picturesque trip you skirt the tihorea of Lake Rotorua, pass through the Maorl village of 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 tbe wharf you Join the launch which takes you for an hour's crulse acroea the placid waters of Lake Rotoiti and to the many bfiautiful fern-covered bays. Cara depart 2.00 p.m. daily from tha Road Services Office, Tutanokal Street. Mor'ning and Afternoon Teas avallable.

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

ENCHANTING i INSPIRINGi ■ ORAKEI-KORAKO The Place of Adornmg The Delightful Trip to" Amazing Aladdin's „the World's Greatest Cave | Terraces Tremendous River ' Fearsome Underground Rapids, etc. Geysers 36 miles of good road BOOK AT N.Z.R. ROAD SERVICES,. TUTANEKAI STREET,

WHEN tbe Tarawera eruption blew the famous Pink and White Terraces to J#] W it was considered a major calamity. Nature, however.had a wayofrestoq the balance. At the recently opened thermal area of Orakei-Korako has been J terraces as great in extent as the lost ones and presentmg every conceivable coio^ tiS from gHttering white to deepest jade. The Orakei-Korako trip, however, ^ be considered in two sections. Firstly, tbe absorbmg interest of scenery on tM nn+ wbere tbe heavily-timbered crown on the Horohoro ramparts throws a back scene for the smiling farms of the model native settlement at its pvprereen elades of the pine plantations of Forests' Products, Ltd. ; a tou J ZSy during a pause at the sacred "Witch's Roek-'i Pohaturoa Peak, tralyo ■ Fn the world; Atiamuri Eapids, Kainhow Pall, Inspiration Point and 9 .ha® J rnnidn on the Waikato River. All provide fresh pomts of interest. -Secondiyi i ^ is thl uneqnalled area of Orakei-Korako itself. Eefreshmeut may be had « uleasantly situated tea-room, and competent puidea ferry visitors across the J p- or „ o+eel-cabled ferry and conduct them around the valley of eneh fj ° fba Seat river urorides a geutle undertone to the beautiful, b»M»j fascinating OTchestration of Nature that is Orakei-Korako, "The. Place of Ad«JJ wit.h its crashing crescendo of colour, beauty and the fine fairy-like lovel® ] riaddfn's Cave?g It can fairly be claimed that Orakei-Korako has every gJ thermal activity eristent ta the world and much that is Yound no^ew ^else. « n fumeroles and pools, shimmermg champagne wuldrons, , taer on tier o Jl terraces crowned by tbe solid silica buttress known as the Golden Fleece, a j piled on colour. . . , — ' . ri\ 9*15 a*m* FARE 15/" A /