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Excerpt from Maoriland: Illustrated Handbook to New Zealand Already English tourists are wandering from the beaten track and seeking in New Zealand life and scenery that change which is the charm of all travel. The Sister colonies have not been Slow to Show their appreciation of the proximity of a country, the bracing summer climate of which offers a welcome relief to the enervating atmosphere of their own, and season after season the increasing number Of visitors that cross over from Australia by the Splendid boats that carry on the inter colonial trade testify to the growing popularity of New Zealand as a tourist country. Recognising that without a guide to the various attractions of a new country the traveller's pleasure in his visit is very much diminished, the Directors of the Union Steam Ship Company Of New Zealand have on two previous occasions issued publications Of this nature, which have served their purpose and met with the appreciation of the public. The rapidity with which the Colony has progressed, and the Opening up of new routes of travel, however, has made the issue of a Handbook on a more extended basis than their previous publications a matter Of necessity. With a view to supplying this want the Directors of the Company entrusted the preparation of a work, such as was required, to three gentlemen who have made themselves familiar with the characteristic features Of the parts Of the Colony which they have respectively described. The present volume is the result of their joint labours. The description of the North Island has been written by Mr. Alex. Wilson, M. A., and that of the Middle Island by Mr. Rutherford Waddell, m.a., while the account Of the West Coast Sounds is contributed by Mr. T. W. Whitson. Every place described has been visited by the writers, and reliable information collected on the Spot; and while keeping its primary Object as a Guide Book to the Colony prominently in view, the compilers have aimed at making the work one of interest to the general reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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