A Magnificent Tourist Route.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7720, 24 January 1905, Page 3

A Magnificent Tourist Route.

Sir Joseph Ward, speaking to a Post representative, said very iVw | people in the colony realised what a ' magnificent tourist route is now open along the Wanganui Kiver, very dilTerent to what it was until about six months ago. Tlk» fact remains, he went on to say, that you can get onboard th- train at Uotorua, ami travel right down thy upper reaches of the river, until you are put on board the housc-bout, some forty or iifty luilen down from Tauinarunui. The house-boat is provided with all sorts of conveniences—tim-ing-rooms, smoke-rooms, {l "d so (>n—ami after a pleasant break there you go on t«i I'ipiriki, arriving Vhere about five o'clock in the evening. "I don't know anything like it in the colony," remarked Sir Joseph Wand, and he added that tlu; Wanganui Kiver was now being made the highway for all that part of the North Island. There has already been a tremendous development in the traffic, and he is looking forward to the Hailway Department being u able to alter its arrangements, so as to enable passengers to reach Taumarunui from Krankton at four o'clock in the afternoon. Thai would mean that they could get down to the boat-house in the evening, and stop there all night, going on to Wangamii day.