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I ^ Royal Hotel Criterion Hotel auckland new plymouth Telegrams - - - Royal, Auckland Telegrams - - - - Criterion, j. i tt JL I New hwT^TTi Gisborne Hotel auckland gisborne! telegrams - - Central, Auckland Telegrams Gisborne Hotel, Hamilton Hotel - Gisborne T . hamilton Occidental Hotel wellington Telegrams - - - Hamilton Hotel, Telegrams - - - - Occidental, Hamilton • Wellington AND OTHER HOTELS' THROUGHOUT THE NORTH ISLAND. the famous chain of WAITEMATA HOTELS always at your service BRENTS The Holiday Hotel ROTORUA CENTRAL HEATING INSTALLED Next to Government Gardens and Baths. Handy for all sports.

JJOTEL ^UCKIAND (Fully Licensed.)' Corner Queen and Customs Streets, Auckland. LARGEST HOTEL IN THE CITY. 200 Bedrooms. CENTRALLY SITUATED IN THE HTJB OF THE CITY OF AUCKLAND Telegrams: "Hotdl Auckland," Auckland. gTATION JJOTEL AUCKLAND. jOpposite Central Railway Station. BEAUTIFUL HARB.OUR VIEW. New Building, Tastefully Decorated and Furnished. TELEPHONE AND HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM. ' Moderate Tariff. COURTESY — EFFICIENCY — ATTENTTON. 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 her loveliest. CLOSED VNTIL FURTHER NOTICE LAUNClf MERLIN for hire MOKOIA ISLAND PASSENGER SFRVirF 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 on Launch — £4 per day, £2/10/- half-day. Moonlight Excursions Sundays 8 p.m. Picnic Parties hy arrangemeiit. D. W. MUIR, Prop., 6 Union St., Rotorua, or enquire at Wharf. ROTORUA'S LEADING JEWELLERY & SOUVENIR DEPOT Unbreakahle 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. H 0 B B s. Jewellers, TUTANEKAI STREET.

WAIOTAPU THERMAL . AREA The Artists' Paradise . A display of sucb conglomeration of colours — wlncli vary with tho idiosyncrasies of the fairies, expressed by waving their magic wands over the area — as to be beyond human conception. Multitudinous tints and colourings in amazing panoramic displays^ remarkable terrace formations wonder- ' fully and variedly coloured; deep craters with preci- . , p ous sides; a galaxy of colours and an awe- ! lnspmng exliibition of beautiful sulphur crystals: a picture of colours that would be the delight of an artjst— the colourful gem in the Rotorua Theimal Belt. The Lady Knox Gevser entertains every morning at 10 o'cloclc. Admission: To Sights, 2/6; to Geyser, 1/-. Return fare by service car: 7/6. OKERE FALLS Motor and LauncK OKERE FALLS, HINEMOA STEPS AND CAVE and an hour'a cruise on Lake Rotoiti. FARE: 8/- RETURN — Guide Fee 6d On thls fasclnating and plcturesque trip you sklrt the tthores of Lake Rotorua, pass through the Maorl vlHage of Mourea and cross the Ohau Channel to Okere A Bhort walk takes you down the Hinemoa Steps to the Okere Falls and Hinemoa Cave. Returnlng to the whaxf you join the launch which takes you for an hour's cruise acrosa the placld waters of Lake Rotoiti and to the many beautiful fem-covered bays. Car. depart 2.00 p.m. daily from the Road'SarvIce. Offlc, Tutanekai Street. Mornina and Afternoon Tea. availabi..

IN and AROUND ROTORUA j; Wliere to Visit when you Have || time to make Short Trips ROTORUA FROM THE AIR Take a flight over Mt. Tarawera's Craters, the Coloured Lakes and Thermal Areas — Fare 30/-. If you are not satisfied that tliis is the hest trip Rotorua has-to olfer, you will not he asked to pay. Shorter Trips over Thermal areas, Lakes and Township from 10/-. - SPECIAL TRIPS BY ARR AN GEMENT. waikato aviation company . S. J. BLACKMORE, Pilot. Aerodrome Phone 866 — Residence 350K.

ENCHANTING! INSPIRING! ORAKEI -KOR AKO . : The Place of Adorning The Delightful Trip" to" Amazing Aladdin's the .World s Greatest ' Cave ' Terraces Tremendous River Fearsome Underground Rapids, etc. Geysers 36 miles of good toad HOOK AT N.Z.R. ROAD SERVICES, TUTANEKAI STREET

W^EN tte Tarawera eruption blew the famous Pink and White Terraces to pi«ce> H it was considered a major calamity. Nature, however, had a way of restoring fl the balance. At the recently opened thermal area of Orakei-Korako has been revealed ■ terraces as great in extent as the lost ones and presenting every conceivable colour®' tion from glittering "white to deepest jade. The Orakei-Korako trip, however, vm fl be considered in two sections. Firstly, the absorbing interest of scenery on the road m out where the heavily-timbered crown on the Horohoro ramparts throws a mighty ■■ back scene for the smiling farms of the model native' settlement at its foot; tn® ■ evergreen glades of the pine plantations of Forests' Products, Ltd.; a touch w M phantasy during a pause at the sacred "Witch's Rock"; Pohaturoa Peak, truly anjqn6 fl in the world; Atiamuri Rapids,- Rainbow Fall, Inspiration Point and Whaka SeM ■ rapids on the Waikato River. All provide fresh points of interest. Secondly, there H is the unequalled area of Orakei-Korako itself. Refreshment may be had at the H pleasantly situatefl tea-room, and competent guides ferry visitors across the Waikst® n River in a steel-cabled ferry and conduct them around the valley of encbantiuei1* H where the great river provides a gentle undertone to the beautiful, bizarre anf, ■ fascinating orchestration of Nature that is Orakei-Korako, "The Place of Adorning. ■ with its crashing crescendo of colour, beauty and the fine fairy-like lovelines® oi H Aladdin's Cave. It can fairly 6e claimed that Orakei-Korako has every iQTm ® fl thermal activity existent in the world and much that is found nowhere else. Geyser®. ■ fumeroles and pools, shimmering champagne cauldrons, tier on tier of colovtw M terraces crowned by the solid silica buttress known as tbe "Golden Fleece," and col° fl piled on colour. j1 , ^ fl 9.15 a.m. FARE 15/- Guide Fee