MOUNT EGMONT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 232, 28 October 1903, Page 2

MOUNT EGMONT.

ITS ATTRACTION-t AND ACCESSIBILITY. In his annual r port to tha Egmoit ! Nation 1 P-i'-k Board, submitted to the 1 meeting on Tuesday, tha ('ommissiom r of Crown L"n<3s (Mr J, Macker ?.(■) makes the following siatemect, which is of great importance: —" Having so oft->n pointed out the great necessity there is for a centrally-situated house ' or hotel where ordinary comforts are obtainable at moderate rates, together ' with a carriage road thereto, I do not : think on this occasion I need refer to jit beyoDd s iyiog that, considering its i proximity to the great, t u'isfi highways |of the D )lony by set aud Uod, there i« o'.her place of its interest aod ! character in the colony that can bs esploi'ed with less inconvenience to tb« , traveller, and at expanse or loss of 1 time, than this boautiful snd easily ! climbed mountain; and I tiu.t that , now Mr Donne, the head of the Tourist ' Department, has visited it (although not under favourable conditions of weather) and has bad pointed out to ■ him what is to be seen there and in other historic portions of Taranaki—where th? ruins of the Nativo strong- ! holds and ancient battlefields only now j remain as the silent evidence of the ( eventful struggle which took place bej tween Baton and Maori for supremacy in this district —will not be lost sight of. , The popularity of the mountain as a , health tesorfc is being every day triore appreciated, and its reciiparative power , is continually recommended by the ( m°dic>-.I profession, The high altitude, with its bracing and health-giving I surroundings, coupled with the dry , porous nature of the soil (a light layer I of soil resting on a bed of scoria gravel), r has proved remarkably beneficial to all classes of the community."