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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 10 (May 1, 1929.)

Marvellous Scenery and Sport

Marvellous Scenery and Sport.

To Nature-lovers of the world at large New Zealand offers a complete change of scene. Here is a larger thermal wonderland than America's Yellowstone Park; here is “The World's Wonder Walk” (the track from Lake Te Anau to Milford Sound), which offers more stupendous spectacles than the Yosemite Valley; here are lakes of heavenly blue, reflecting the crystal crowns of green-mantled mountains; here are evergreen forests, with subtropical wealth of growth, without snakes, dangerous animals, or any menace to health; here are fiords which surpass Norway's inlets in beauty and majesty; here are noble rivers which wind through fairylands; here is an inspiring alpine region with easily accessible glaciers larger than Switzerland's; here Nature has worked to give the most impressive scenic contrasts.

“The Sportsman's Paradise” was a title given to New Zealand by a visitor long ago. Here are caught the world's largest rainbow and brown trout (scaling up to 201b), and there are also quinnat and Atlantic salmon in southern waters. The season license fees for trout range from £1 to £6 (the charge for overseas visitors in the Taupo district, renowned for its big “rainbows”).

The northern waters—from the Bay of Plenty to the North Cape—give the world's best deep-sea angling, according to Mr. Zane Grey. Here huge swordfish, mako shark, and thresher shark are “played” excitingly with rod and reel.

Red deer are numerous in many parts of the North and South Islands. Wapiti and moose herds have been established in the Fiordland of the South Island.

The most favourable times for sport are: Trout, beginning of October; Swordfish, beginning of January; salmon, beginning of February; deer and wapiti, beginning of March; feathered game, beginning of May.