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

| ana kingston, TWO hours ana quar-
ter; between Queenstown and Head of
Lake. three hours.
First class meals or other refresh
ments to be had on board steamers.
! An oil launch can be chartered at
| Queenstown for parties numbering up
(, TO twenty-five, and interesting parts of
| Lake Wakatipu may be visited.
| This remarkable tourist bureau is
sues maps of every carriage road in
| New Zealand. every road At for a
bicycle, horse travel and even foot
| trails to sehlam visited parts of tie
| land. The tourist is never urged to
go to any one place. he is given the in
| formation he wants and then aided in
every way to carry out the plans he
makes for himself. Take, for instance,
| the West Coast Sounds; numerous
trails We're cut to these, some years
| ago, the tourist seemed to prefer the
one from Lake TIE Anau via Suther-
land Falls (2900 feet high) to Milford
| Sound, one of the seven scenic wonders
of the world. Every ten miles accom-
mediation lluts were built and a hotel
at either end of the trail, and now
other trails are TO be cut to nearby
glaciers and other wonder spots. This
TIE Anau trail is only for foot pas
sengers, yet there is a constant stream
of people passing back and fourth, SO
| that the huts, every eight or nine miles
apart and accommodating thirty per-
sons, are sometimes overcrowded So
much for the management Of a tourist
bureau that said: Perhaps the people
will walk if We prepare the way"
| and had the money to act or this
sound Judgment. There are walks
about Honolulu, within five miles or
the city. scarcely less beautiful than
that world famous tramp from Lake
TIE Anau to Milford Sound; and there
are people who if they knew the trails.
would gladly take them. New Zealand
has much to teach US in the way of
appropriating money to develop the
country in way that will tempt peo-
pie to travel. 1t took many years OF
hard earnest endeavor to find a trail
over the mountains from the lakes TO
the sounds, but no one begrudged the
money spent. T. z. Donne kept at 1t
until the pass was discovered and the
trail cut, then he erected his accom-
mediation huts, policed the trail with
guides and added the following page to
the government guide TO New Zealand:
HEAD OF LAKE TIE ANAU TO MIL
FORD SOUND.
From Glade House to Pompolona
Hut 10 miles.
From Pompolona Hut to top of Nc
Kinnon Pass $500 ft), 5 IA miles.
Top of McKinnon Pass to Quinton
Huts Qate Falls Huts) miles.
Quinton Huts TO Boat Landing, Lake
Ada, Ia miles.
Boat Landing, Lake Ada TO Head of
Milford Sound, ga miles.
"a saving Of five miles vdn be effect |
ed by taking boat across Lake Ada
use of boat, IS. Sd. per person, mini |
mum charge, los. 1t is advised that |
the track should be taken on the trip |
to Milford, and the boats on Lake Ada |
on return Journey
Head of Milford Sound to Accommo- |
dation house Gaunch). miles.
On foot, with guides-Track ticket, |
3s, Cd, including ferries on Clinton and |
Arthur rivers.
Guiding. Us, Sd. per day. one person; |
IS. cd. per day each additionai person, /
rs. Sd, single.
Quinton Huts to foot of Sutherland /
Falls d904 ft). / Ia miles.
Telephone, Milford Sound to Glade /
House.
Huts equipped with resident cooks. !
food and bedding. Charges: Meals or
beds. 2s. each. Travellers will please !
get track ticket and coupons for meals
and beds at huts from manager, Glade
House, before commencing journey, I
any coupons not used on trip may be
returned TO manager, who Will refund /
value.
Persons not in charge of guide must
arrange with caretaker. Quinton Huts,
for use Of boats on Lake Ada.
Oil launch run by Sutherland on Mil
ford Sound. Good trout fishing in
Clinton and Arthur rivers, and Lake
Ada Fishing tackle can be hired at
Glade House or at SutherlaDd's Ac-
commodation house.
The stirling and Bowen Falls,
Milford Sound, sos IT, and $50 f., re-
speetively-
Telegraph Offices: TIE Anau and Ma
napouri. Postoffice at Glade House
and Milford sound
New Zealand has won out as a world
famous tourist resort because she real
lied al the start, that the tourist would
demand fair. square deal-and New
Zealand IS Scotch-so she gave il to
him. Fortunate she is too in having
man at tbs head Of her tourist de-
partmept who knows how to DO things
and does them. Absolutely fearless Of
monopolistic companies, and they ex-
list in New Zealand. Mr.. Dbnne has
fought the fight Of the people and Of
the stranger, SO that travel IN New
Zealand, once a luxury, Is now being
placed within the reach Of ALL the
sentiment Of the people is not 1--WE
can't afford to travel" but I'VE can't'