Heppner gazette-times., March 08, 1984, Page THREE, Image 3

Around About
By Justine Weatherford
Last month, from the afternoon of February 3 until the
evening of February 10, 1 aw many interesting sight and
lived on two ranches with families on New Zcland's North
Island ! do not speak or write as an authority on New Zealand
and cannot say much about tin Suuih Island, but I fsel very
enthusiastic about the fine people and the exciting places I
visited on beautiful North Island. N.Z. is a constitutional
monarchy with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II the head of
state, who is represented there by a resident Governor
General who serves chiefly as a symbol of N.Z.'s member
ship in the British Commonwealth of .Nations.
,' N.Z. was the first
country to give women the right to vote (1903) and was one of
the first countries to provide social security for all citizens, to
require workers and employers to settle their differences by
arbitration and to provide an excellent public health
program which has made its infant death rate one of the
world's lowest.
I spent two nights and parts of three days In Auckland, the
largest city which has close to 800,000 persons in its greater
urban area. (N.Z.'s capital is Wellington at the southern Up
of the North Island, with a populatin of 320,000. The principal
cities of the South Island are Chrtstchurch and Dunedin. The
two islands together are a little smaller than the state of
Colorado.) Almost two-thirds of the people live in busy,
modem cities and smaller towns; one-third live on farms and
ranches. The country's coastline is 3,000 miles and it
measures about 1,000 miles from north to south and about 280
miles from esst to west.
After one afternoon flight from Sydney across the Tasman
Sea and our official processing at Auckland Airport, we were
taken to the Hyatt Klngsgate Hotel on a lovely hill above the
city and Us beautiful harbor. That evening (Friday) the
stores were open until 9 p.m. Four of us walked to the main
part of the city where we found sizeable crowds shopping
along Victoria and Queens streets aa we headed toward the
prominent red brick Ferry Building. After several hours of
walking and looking in a few stores we climbed back up the
hill to the hotel where about 2:30 a.m. the fire alarms and
sirens roused everyone. My roommate and I made our way
down eight flights of fire escape stairs, along with hundreda
of other folks, most of whom wore sleep clothes and robes or
cosU, to stand outside the hotel until the Auckland Fire
Department members came out of the building and assured
us it waa safe to re-enter mat there had been a
malfunctioning In the wiring which caused the false alarm.
So we all Jammed back into the lobby and massed in front
of the lifts to ride back to our floors.
The next morning after breakfasting at the hotel, we began
our bus trip of N.Z. leaving Auckland and traveling along the
Southern Motorway out over the Bombay Hills and through
the fertile lands of the Waikato River Valley. We passed
through the coal mining towns of Huntly and ngaruawahia, a
center of Maori culture, through Hamilton, the largest inland
city and a major commercial and industrial center (close to
100,000 population) and through several small towns named
Te Awamutu and Otorohanga to the lovely Waitomo Hotel
near the entrance of the world-famous Waitomo Glow-worm
Cave. After a superb buffet luncheon in the large, historic
hotel, we took our early afternoon walk and silent boat ride
through the amazing underground caverns spangled with
radiant blue-green lights of thousands of Uny glow-worms
which is the most unusual place I have ever visited. The
four -stage life cycle of these worms lasts nine months. The
eggs hatch in three weeks into larvae which grow up to one
and one-half inches long and live In threads feeding on insects
which are attracted by the light the glow-worms emit. Each
worm drops (bout 70 threads during its eight-month span.
The larvae change into pupae, hanging from the ceiling by
threads and the adult emerges after two weeks. The females
live up to three days and the males four days just long
enough to continue the life cycle.
We continued our bus tour south and west with a stop at the
Arapuni hydro-electric power plant that Is nesUed deep in a
narrow gorge cut by the great Waikato River, where some of
us walked across a very high, and narrow, swaying
suspension bridge. From there we traveled through Umber
towns and over the heavily forested Mamaku Range to
Rotorua Lake and city where we stayed. We attended a huge
Maori "Hangl" banquet and program that evening. The
Hangi featured a tremendous buffet with its main dishes of
various unfamiliar fishes and lamb and pork cooked by
steam. After dinner Maori entertainers sang traditional
songs and performed dances featuring twirling "pols" (Balls
on strings) and their' fierce "haka" (a historic war dance).
Prince Charles, Princess Di and little Prince William had
quite recently visited many of the places we visited around
Rotorua, including the impressive old Government House
and its gardens and lawn bowling court; the Whakarewa
rewa old Government House and its gardens and lawn
bowling court; the Whakarewarewa Therm.! Tark (some
thing like our Yellowstone); the Maori 'Arts and Crafts
Institute, model Maori village there and then the
Ohlnemutu Maori village along the lakefront where we
enjoyed spending some Ume in the unusual St. Faith's Maori
Anglican Church with its famous window showing Christ
walking on the waters of the lake.
At the nearby Agrodome we attended an 11 a.m. showing of
19 different breeds of N.Z. sheep, viewed a sheep shearing
and sheep dog handling. Our noon meal that day was at
beautiful Rainbow Springs Gardens. Many entertainments
are offered in the Rotorua area, including relaxing in hot
thermal pools, playing croquet, lawn bowling, golf, horse
back riding, sailing or hovercraft trips on the lake and
helicopter trips around the area. That afternoon my
roommate and three other women had an exciting helicopter
ride which took them to WhUe Island where a volcano was
erupting. Julianne gave me bit of the volcanic ash she
gathered. I spent the afternoon enjoying sightseeing at the
ground level, viewing the exhibits in Rainbow Springs Park,
the animals of that area, unusual birds, including a Kiwi (the
flightless one) and huge Rainbow and German Brown trout.
About 4:30 p.m. we were bussed out to rural Ngakuru
where we met our first host families at a community building
and were assigned to visit ranches in the area. Julianne and I
were taken by Gwen Ross out to a sheep ranch she and her
husband, Alex, own and operate. There we had a delightful
two-night stay. We enjoyed five meals with Mr. and Mrs.
Ross, had a good look around their ranch and were taken for
a ride around their neighborhood to see several nearby deer
ranches where some of our tour folks were visiting. There,
red deer hynds are handled rather like cattle. Most of the
meat is shipped, frozen, to Europe (mainly to Germany) and
the anglers and various other parts are sold to Oriental
buyers. Shepman Alex Ross said that deer ranching, in some
cases, paid better than having sheep.
(Continued next week)
Cabin owners give $500 reward d.m.v. office
V f r J 1
The Morrow County Cabin Owners Association
presented a check for Bob Grant in the amount of
$500 to Morrow County District Attorney Richard
McNerney last Friday as a reward. The
association offers a $500 reward for information
leading to the arrest and conviction of a
person (s) when a member's cabin is broken into.
Last fall several cabins in the Penland lake
area were burglarized. Information provided by
Grant, of Kennewick, Wash., was instrumental
In the arrest and sentencing of Anis Eugene
Walker, 38, and Tony Lee Wyatt May, 22, both of
Richland, Wash.
McNerney accepted the check on Grant's
behalf as Grant was unable to attend the
meeting.
Pictured from left to right are: Lucille Peck,
association treasurer; Pat Cutsforth, board
member; District Attorney Richard McNerney;
Jerry Myers, board member; Orville Cutsforth,
president; and Earl Papineau, association
member.
Mrs. Peck reminds members that each time a
reward is made members are each assessed $25
to build up the reward fund. Checks are to be sent
to her at Clarks Canyon Road, Lexington,
Oregon 97839. '
announces
closures
The Department of Motor
Vehicles office in Heppner has
announced the following office
closure dates for the month of
March :
Friday, March 9, when the
examiner will be in Pendle
ton; Monday and Tuesday, Mar.
19 and 20, the examiner will be
attending a conference in
Hermiston;
Wednesday, Mar. 21, when
the examiner will be attending
an education session in Pen
dleton; and
Wednesday, Mar. 28, when
the examiner will be at the
Fossil office.
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