Along the Rail Route.

Better still, take the train to the rail-head through the heart of the great agricultural and orchard land, a region of fruit and grain crops, of hop-fields—for this is the great Kent-like hops-area of New Zealand—through dairy farms with herds of high-grade stock, through sheep and cattle country and on to the rugged bush hills of the upper Buller Country. Richmond, Appleby, Hope, Brightwater, Spring-grove, Wakefield are traversed, all the sweetest of scenes of rural life and industry. Then by that way you can go on to the bold defile of the Buller Gorge and the West Coast, for this railway is the first section of the grand overland route to the glories of Westland, its forests and gorges and lakes, its alps and its glaciers.