WANGANUI RIVER TRIP
IS IT UNCOMFORTABLE?
Reports that the trip is not comfortable are said to be responsible for a falling-off of passengers on the Wanganui River trip. A tourist who has just returned from a five weeks’ motor trip around New Zealand, states that he made the first part of the journey from Retaruke to Pipiriki.
To get to the landing was an almost perilous undertaking in itself, and most unpleasant for women. At 6.30 a.m. the tourists were awakened, to sit in a chill mist and rain trying to see the river, and arrived at Pipiriki at two o’clock in the afternoon, where the excursion was halted for the night.
It did seem possible, he suggested, that with a little more thought for the convenience of visitors, who had to keep continually moving, the riverboat could have started about 8 a.m. The same early rising was required for the next day’s trip.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 347, 7 May 1928, Page 9
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154WANGANUI RIVER TRIP Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 347, 7 May 1928, Page 9
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