The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-30

Ping TOURISTS SUCCESS HAS BEL
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sive glaciers in the world, beside which
, the Swiss glaciers are but puny af-
fairs, yet the government of New Zea-
! Land makes it possible for all to visit
/ this wonder, which, by the way, is far
more inaccessible and out of the way
than is either HaleakaIa or Kilauea.
/ We learn officially that the start for
the ascent to the glaciers is made from
j the
! GOVERNMENT HOTEL
j THE HERMITAGE" SOUTHERN
/ ALPS.
latitude: 251o ft.)
TARIFF.
los per day for first seven days; IS.
per day after that time. Is 3D. per
single meal or bed. Children over three
years and under II years of age. half
price
GUIDING FEES.
Glacier Excursions
| For one person ......... l5s- per day
| two persons $3.50. 20s.
three persons ....-24s.
| four persons ......28s.
five or more. each. :. IS.
Halliday mot exceeding four hours)
half the above rates.
Special Excursions (Alpine passes and
minor ascents)-
For one person .......... .20s. per day
two persons 30s.
three persons ..... 40s.
four or more persons
................12 1875 ca.
High Accents crate charged for days
of climb only,)
For one person 4es. per day
two persons ........ Sos.
Returning fees.-Guide Us. 3d., and
porter los, per day.
Use of Huts.-With provisions, rs. Sd.
per day: without provisions, IS. per
day. (These charges apply to persons
not residing at the Hermitage" In
case of visitors residing at and paying
full Hermitage accommodation rates,
no charge is made.)
Porter, los per day. Horse (riding
or pack, Is. Sd. for first day. SIS. for
each subsequent consecutive day.
Horse-feed. Is. per feed. .Paddocking,
2s. per week, Sd. per day.
ALPINE EQUIPMENT
Tent, Is: sleeping-bag. 3D.: ice-axe,
Cd ;rucsac, 3D.; dark glasses. Sd; rope.
3d.; waterbottIe, 3d.; lantern, 3d., per
day. To be charged for only when
guide not employed.
Visitors DESTROYS of making excur-
sions are requested to arrange with
the guide the previous evening. If the
number of any party be greater than
the guide considers consistent with
safe travelling, he may reduce it to
such limits as he may think fit
The huts are for the use of visitors
to the Hermitage Any other par
ties camped in them must vacate
should the huts be required by parties
from the Hermitage
Intending visitors to the "Hermi-
tage'' are advised to secure accommo-
dation before making their visit.
Think of hotel, and a good one. to
which provisions are hauled ninety
miles by motor car. charging $3.50
day, and $500 per day. after the first
week, and those accommodation huts,
they exist all over New Zealand; every
ten miles along a trail there is one: you
take your own provisions and secure
from the caretaker, hunks fifty centa
a night. meals fifty cents each. There
is a hut with hunks (great wide,
rooTny affairs for ladies. another for
men, and between the hut Of the care
taker and the big general dining room
What wonder that everyone goes
walking and a travelling about in New
Zealand. Every now and then 1t be-
comes necessary to tear down an ac-
connodation hut and erect q hotel in
its place. then two classes Of tourists
are catered to. $3.50 day is charged
for first class accommodations and &
a day for those who wish 10 travel
second class-and mind you this in
land where wages are really high, and
in out OF the way places where often
the entire equipment and provisions
must be packed-and yet IT pays.
New Zealand first prepares for
the tourist. then advertises. She does
not get the cart before the horse; re-
suit, New Zealand is becoming more
and more a worlds tourist resort, ana
her lands are filing with intelligent
well 10 do. progressive people Of the
white race.
Occasionally it is necessary on some !
almost inaccessible mountain lake,
where a trip a week is made for the
few tourists who are being taught new
routes. to charge pretty stin trans
portatfon rates, but each season the /
rate is lowered, until the four cent 1
mile rate becomes a naEfmum-tHe T
tourist is given full information, how /
ever. in advance, as the following page
from the official itinerary book will /
show:
LAKE wAKATIPC GOVERN MENT 4
STEAMERS.
Summer service, Nov. 70 April 30. /
Winter service May to october 81
From Queenstown to Kingston, p ,
miles. fare. sal. As. single: S. return !
From Queenstown to Head Of Lake, !
25 miles, fares, Sal, SIS. single; los. re-
turn.
Steaming time: Between Queenstown