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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 9 (January 1, 1934)

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If you want any thrills, Trainlanders, try a trip over Skippers, the once famous gold-mining district at Queenstown.

Until quite recently, coaches were used for this thrilling journey, but nowadays, you just hop into one of the Mt. Cook Motor Company's service cars and away you go. The hood of the car is down and there is a raging wind, so hold onto your hats! The sun is shining brilliantly and the twisting road behind and before you looks like a pin-scratch on the face of the cliffs. Higher, higher up the mountain-side you climb, into the sky, until you are looking over the cliffs as though from a skyscraper window. Far down below in the patchwork plains of coloured fields are people working who look no bigger than lady-birds. Up and down the rocky road, you climb, through Hell's Gates, around Fools' Bend, and past the Lighthouse Rock. While the motor stops for a few minutes to let the boiling radiator cool you will have time to see all kinds of weird and wonderful castles and faces in the rock formations. Right in the heart of the mountains you will see “chairs” suspended on cables which span the rivers.