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l Royal Hotel Criterion Hotel AUCKLAND NEW PLYMOUTH I Telegrams - - - Royal, Auckland Telegrams - - - - Criterion, New Plymouth Centrai Hotel Gisborne Hotel AUCKLAND GISBORNE Telegrams - - Centrai, Auckland Telegrams Gisborne Hotel, ty ■!, tt j. i Gisborne i Ha™£roN Occidental Hotel , HAMILTON WELLINGTON Telegrams - - - Hamilton Hotel, Telegrams - - - - Occidental, • Hamilton Wellington AND OTHER HOTELS' THROUGHOUT THE NORTH ISLAND. s _ TME FAMOUS CHAIN OF - ! WAITEMATA HOTELS | ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE j~BRENTS ! The Holiday Hotel | . ROTORUA | XX ! CENTRAL HEATING INSTALLED • I 1 Next to Government ■ Gardens . and ! Baths. Handy for all sports. » —

j O'T EL AUCKLAND (Fully Licensed.) Corrier Queen and Customs Streets, Auckland. : LARGEST HOTEL IN THE CITY. I 200 Bedrooms. | CENTRALLY SITUATED IN THE j HUB OF THE CITY OF AUCKLAND I Telegrams: "Hotel Auckland," j Auckland. gTATION ROTEL AUCKLAND. Opposite Centrai Railway Station. BEAUTIFUL KARB.OUR VIEW. New Building, Tastefully Decorated and Furnished. 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 her loveliest. closed until further notice

LAUNCH MEELIN - FOR HIRE I 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 on 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., j Rotorua, or enquire at Wharf. j ROTORUA'S LEADING ! JEWELLERY & SOUVENIR DEPOT . Unbreakable Watch Glasses, any size FITTED AT SHORTEST NOTICE. 9 ct., 18 • ct. and PLATINUM WEDDING RINGS ,v Beautifully Chased. . JEWELLERY AND SPECTACHE REPAIRS of any description undertaken. ENGRAVING All Work Carried Out- on Premises „ — — A. H0BBS- : Jewellers, -il " TUTANEKAI STREET.

WAIOTAPU THERMAL .... GOVERNMENT ROUND TRIP I AREA _ m IBOJJfyO ! ■ 1 The Artists' Paradise | ■ ©1.11^0 w W ► It is impossible to conceive any more diverse 1 iA display of such conglomeration of colours — ? jp'ja g i M 2 and enthralling scenery and phexiomena than is met 1 which vary with the idiosyncrasies of the f airies, ? |TJ|3 Sg Mm ? with on this famous trip. Leaving Rotorua, travel- | expresserl by waving their magic wands over the | i ffi a 1k 2 l^rs traverse Earthquake Flat and on to the site ot I area — as to be beyond human conception. Multi- « " J the famous Waimangu Geyser eruption. The de- | tudinous tints and colourings in amazing panoramic l «*r, , -a r. . » 2 vastation left in the trail of tliis upheaval is stlll i ~ displays; remarkable terrace formations wonder- 2 W llOr© tO \ ISlt WReil YOU oaV© ^ plainly to be seen and the boiling crater lake is a 1 fully and variedly coloured; deep craters with preci- • l Trim* ^ most awe-inspiring sight. Then commences a walK 1 pitous sides; a galaxy of colours and an awe- z Lime lO UlaK.c L P with a guide through a series of remarkable thermal | inspiring exliibition of beautiful sulphur erystals; a J • ,r„r,ffj.r.rjffi- — — and volcanic activities. Next the travellers embarfc ,| picture of colours that would b'e the delight of ^ on a launch which', under the guidance of an experi- | an artist — tlre colourful gem in the Rotorua enced pilot, cruises over Lake Rotomahana, an a Thermal Belt. The Lady Knox Geyser entertains ^ n ' immense sheet of hot and boiling water under whicn 1 every morning at 10 o'clock. the titanic forees of Nature fitfully slumber. W. | Admission: To Sights, 2/6; to Geyser, 1/-. .« • landing, a short walk'brings the party to the shad® 1 Retum fare by service car: 7/6. of Mount Tarawera, a volcano of formidable aP" | ' pearance whose lava-scorched sides vividly recmi | a TT^lTi /T\WT CDDTWCC the terrible eruption of the mountain on June 10 j | jLVrc.J.1 W ui ^ 1886, when many lives were lost and the famous j b" ROTORUA FROM ' THE AIR Terraces were ^ ! FARE: 1/6 — Guide F«« 1/-. . ^ t Again a launch is requisitioned and this time The Rainbow Springs rapidly achieved fame as one oi Take a flight over Mt. s Craters, the the party is conveycd across beautiful Lake jTa» Rotorua's most popular beauty epots. Tlireo pools, S6t Coloured Lakes and Thermal Areas rare oU/-. wera, a majestie stretcll OI crystal water. 1 in an environment of bush and fern, contain large num- , . ~ +Vl- • tu v.p„4. 4--;-, i await the passengers on the other side and on bers of trout, Including many of considerable slze. Tho W y°u a?-'e satisned fha , , . road back to Rotorua pass first the site of the bun gracefui movements of the flsh, the flns servirig variousiy Rotorua has to oiter, you will not ue as p y« village of Te Wairoa, which was ■overwhelmed m as oars and balancers, can be vlewed to advantage. When Shorter Trips over Thermal areas, Lakes and terrible eruption of 1886. A sweep in tbe road • shafts of sunlighf play on the water the effect is beautiful. Township from 10/-. brings into view the far-famed Green, ot Rotoj The rainbow trout is then revealed as one of Nature's * , . A; T „-L._ nftprwaTds the Blue> finlshed works of art. It has an incomparable dellcacy of SPECIAL TRIPS HY ARRANGEMENT. , -j irTikitanuLakeC^lim^ of unique colourform with markings that show an extraordinary range of rnT/v*T nrkTt/ir* a TVTV . llkltapu Lake, TWO limpia gems ox u _ l tlnts and pencillings. The Rainbow Springs reglon cOn- WAIKATO AVIATION COMPANY ing. A run past glorious forestry P|anb , ,, talns a large varlety of shrubs and ferns. It is in faot q t t>t aCKMORF Pilnt Rotorua completes what is undoubtedly one a magniflcent and extenslve shrubbery through which ' outstanding trips of the world. shady'paths are lald. Aerodrome Phone 866 — Residence 350K. _ # n I, , | i ' ■■■■ ■ — ■ — th— — ■■■■ « ■ ■ ■■ 1 ■■ — — — ■ " * -

J ■ . i Phtru A MTIWr ! T N 51 P I R I N fl f WHEN the Tarawera eruption blew the famous Pink and White Terraces to pieee« i L IN U jrl a-v 1 V 1 jLi-L— -£ * it was considered a major calamity. Nature, however, had a way of rest^|j 1 the balance. At the recently opened thermal area of OraRei-Korako has heen reY ira# , ^ w w terraces as great in extent as the lost ones and presenting every conceivable coiou , | A T ^ T / / | T3 A Sz tion from glittering white to deepest jade. The Orakei-Korako trip, however, S 1 g 1 I k. t J |% /-% W%, % f * be considered in two sections. Firstly, the absorbing interest of scenery on tne r .a. A. i A. JL out where tbe heavily-timbered crown on the Horohoro ramparts throws a mig . . t . . back scene for the smiling farms of the model native settlement at lts fooi, ihe Pi&ce-or Adornmg evergreen glades of the pine plantations of Forests' Products, Ltd.; a touca 0 • — " phantasy during a pause at the sacred "Witch's Rock"; Pohaturoa Peak, truiy u in the world; Atiamuri Rapids, Rainbow Fall, Inspiration Point and Whaka » Thp Deliehtful TriD to Amazing Aladdm S rapids on the Waikato River. All provide fresh points of interest. Secondiy, 1 m ii, >. x i is the unequalled area of Orakei-Korako itself. Refreshment msy be had Irt » the World S Greatest Gave pleasantly situated tea-room, and competent guides feiry visitors across the jvai I m' _ m j t»* River in a steel-cabled ferry and conduct them around the valley of encnan Terraces Tremendous Where the great river provides a gentle undertone to the beautiful, bizarre , r-f tt j 1 T?53 Hiriki fascinating orchestration of Naturo that is Orakei-Korako, * The Place of Underground ixapias, euc. with its crashing crescendo of colour, beauty and the fine fairy-like lovelmess 0{ QTTriAMa Q milpci ir)"P (Tonrl rnarl Aladdin's Cave. It can fairly be claimed that Orakei-Korako has every _ gergj Geysers oO nuies 01 gooa rodu thermal activity existent in the world and much that is found nowhere else. fumeroles and pools, shimmering, champagne cauldrons, tier on tier oi _ _ m T ~ n cCDUIPFQ terraces crowned by the solid silica buttress known as the "Golden Fleece, ana BOOK Ai N.Z.R. KOAU DLKVIUtO, piled on colour. I , /fi TUTANEKAI STREET ' 9.15 a.m. FARE 15/- Guide Fec 4/Q