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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 4 (July 2, 1934.)

Through the Urewera

Through the Urewera.

A friend who motored through the Urewera Country not long since, from the Waikaremoana side to Rotorua, told me that he really did not see much of the bush, or as much as he would like to have seen, because the whole of his attention was taken up with his steering. He had, naturally, to keep his eye continually on the road of many twists and turns and get but a casual passing impression of the glories of the forest and the ranges. Also, he was pressed for time. (All motorists seem to be pressed for time, I have observed. There is only one traveller more pressed, or oppressed by the demon time and that is the motor-cyclist.)

This is, of course, the one inevitable drawback of the tour on flying wheels. You cannot possibly gather an adequate understanding of such a region as the Urewera from behind the wheel of a motor car, or even as a passenger.