The Picture Town.

Queenstown is a pleasant place, its old-fashioned air, its suggestion of pioneering history which is not overlaid entirely by modern innovations. It is a town of garden charms and tree solace. The lure of gold brought the blue-shirted diggers up this way just on seventy years ago, and many a place name about the lake is a relic of those days of wash-dish and sluice. Five-mile Creek, Lake Dispute, Skipper's, Shotover, and a score of other names hold stories of endeavour, romance, success and tragedy that would make a book. Queenstown Park is quite a fascinating place, and Queenstown Bay, viewed from here, is a dream of a picture on fine calm evenings, with the white village and green woods and soft blue mountains mirrored in its glimmering smoothness.