“FINEST WALK”
COLLINGWOOD TO WESTPORT ENTHUSIASTIC TRAMPER Press Association. WESTPORT, To-day. Messrs. F. H. Haigh (Auckland), E. C. Ferries, R. Beattie, and J. R. Moloney (Christchurch), who tramped through from Bainham in the Collingwood country, to Karamea, and from there came on to Westport, described the track as the finest forest walk in the Dominion. Indeed one of the party enthusiastically spoke of it is "one of the world’s greatest forest walks.” For variety of scenery, they said it surpassed Milford Track. The scenery of the latter is of one type, whereas that on this route is richly varied in bush, mountain and river, and there is also a great variety of plant life on the mountain. T h ? variety of ferns, stated Mr. Haigh, was beyond compare. Native birds of every kind also abound. Nor had they seen a beach as a pleasure resort to compare with that of tho Heaphy. The trampers found excellent accommodation at Heaphy in a hut with five bunks erected by the Buller I County council, but suggested tiiat
two other huts should be erected, those on the route were rather fc* apart. They spoke highly of the data supplied to them at the outset of t* trip by Mr. L. J. Bayfield, head of t* tourist office sit Christchurch.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 244, 5 January 1928, Page 16
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