GREAT BARRIER ISLAND
Sir,-Would you pardon me for sending you a few lines by way of correction to a statement which appeared in a recent Listener about the passenger service between Auckland and the Great Barrier Island. It is a fact that the steamer passenger service terminated some months ago, but cargo scows took up the running and these boats are owned by the same Company. So popular and attractive is this island that passengers accept with fortitude the accommodation provided in the hold of these boats pending the inauguration of some modern transport by sea or air. Great Barrier Island is 50 miles N.E. of Auckland, has an area of 80,000 acres, and a population of somewhere near 500. The attractions for tourists-ocean beaches, forests and hot springs -are so real, that as many as a thousand people have crossed from Auckland in one season. That is why tourists still patiently submit to the discomforts of the present arrangements, but they are hoping for the day when the Tourist Department will take pity on them,
PIONEER
(Gt. Barrier)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 69, 18 October 1940, Page 4
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179GREAT BARRIER ISLAND New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 69, 18 October 1940, Page 4
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