"MAGNIFICENT COUNTRY."

Taranaki Daily News, 16 May 1916, Page 4

"MAGNIFICENT COUNTRY."

.VISITORS IMPRESSIONS OP XARANAKI ! '

MILES OF SPLENDID ROADS.

A magnificent country with prosperous dairy industries, miles of splendid roads, and holiday attractions which surpass any others in New Zealand, sum up the features of Taranaki as they have impressed Mr. ,1. Vigor Brown M.P., of-Napier. Mr. Brown has been on an extensive visit to Taranaki, and he was in New Plymouth yesterday when he-gave an interview to a Daily New 3 representative. "Your mountain is a most beautiful plac?," said Mr. Brown, f'l never before realised how pleasant a holiday could bo Bpent there, and if it was only better known it would become the most popu-, lar tourist resort in New Zealand. For a rest there is no place in New Zealand to surpass the North Egmont Mountain House I have been to Mount Cook and all the other holiday resorta in the Dominion, but none of them can be compared with Mount Egmont." j Dawson Falls, and then to the North Mr. Brown motored from Hawera to Egmont Hou ,e by way of Stratford and Inglewood, and the journey enabled him. to judge the quality of the Taranaki roads. "I have never seen roads like them,-' said Mr. Brown. "We thought we had good roads in Hawkc's B.ay, but I have come to Taranaki to find out what good roads are like. In the trip from Hawera to the North Ejjmont House we never had a jolt all the way, and we passed' over thirty miles of asphalt road. Prior to this I never dreamed of meeting such a long stretch of asphalt road in New Zealand." Mr. Brown also motored from New Plymouth to ITruti, and from New Plymouth to Opunake, and on both tneW routes he was impressed bv the Kplendid roads. 'The whole country in Taranaki is lovely; it is magnificent land," he eontinued. Mr. Brown said a visitor could not help being struck w'th the growth and prosperity of the dairying industry in the province, and tin' stretches o't beautiful country, dotted with homesteads and {ij»w,n»',, recalled .to him the picture of Taranaki, as he saw it forty years ago. Ho referred to the difficulty experienced in some parts ih settling the land, and ,J» said Taranaki seemed to be the only province where this had been done successfully. "You have everything in Taranaki which should spell prosperity and progress, and yet, while your/ country is productive of your towns, such as New Plymouth! do not seem to go ahead as tney should do. You in this district want'ty) let yourselves be known, and especially' dd you want,to advertise your mountain. You want to stir things up, for 550U have a great industry in the country, R'nd you want to support it by MustMeV In New Plymouth." '