THE MOUNTAIN HOUSE.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 October 1921, Page 4

THE MOUNTAIN HOUSE.

CHEAP WEEK-END TRIPS. The North Egmont Hostel Committee have decided to inaugurate cheap weekend trips as from to-morrow week. Cars will run up on Saturday afternoons, returning to town early on Monday morning, so enabling visitors to spend Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday and evening on the mountain. The inclusive charge is £2 ss. Further details are advertised. The committee has also decided tc make a special reduction in the tarifl during the next two months with a view_ to popularising the house during the “off” season. The tariff will be 14/per day. which, considering the service (equal to the best in the country) and the health-giving advantages of the mountain, is ridiculously cheap. The committee is engaged in making several improvements to the hostel. A new electric generating set is to be installed shortly, a freeh water service, a drying ronm for climbers is to be built, the whole of the building is to be renovated inside and outside, and contracts have been let for further excavations at the back of the hostelry and the erection of another building containing eight rooms and bathroom. - The committee is showing ’commendable enterprise, and there is little doubt but that it will meet with the reward it merits.