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From Otiora Bay to Waikawa the coast and inland scenery is much 
the same, the cliffs being about one hundred feet high and very pre- 
cipitous. The country inland falls from the top of the hills which 
form the crater in a steep slope for about half a mile, it then spreads out 
into a fairly level country, though it is cut up by small ravines, down which 
the lava flowed on its road to the sea from the crater. The soil on the 
bottom of these ravines is very good, and peaches, fern, tutu, etc., grow 
luxuriantly. Off Waikawa Point is another pillar of basaltic rock, about 
seventy feet high and two chains off shore—another sign of the encroach- 
ment of the sea. In a ravine close by is the spring, a very small one, 
which, with the little spring in Opo Bay before described, is all the natives 
have to depend upon for their water supply. Close to the spring in ques- 
tion are growing bananas, grapes, apples, figs, and peaches, also flax, all 
doing well, the latter being cultivated. We next come to 
Omapu Bay.—This is another very pretty little open bay, with a 
good sandy beach, and is one of the principal landing places. Inland 
from here is a nice little flat, having a good pohutukawa bush grow- 
ing upon it, one tree of which is the largest I have seen in New Zea- 
land; the whole of this flat has been under cultivation. At the east end of 
the bay are the present cultivations of the natives, which extend across 
from this bay to Opo Bay. Going round to Tokomata Point to Te Moreote- 
maiterangi, the south-east point of Opo Bay, the coast is very rugged and 
picturesque, the cliffs being about 200 feet high, overhung with fine old 
pohutukawas ; the cliffs have reefs of obsidian in them, which at a distance 
look like bronze; on the top of them, and all over Otutawaroa Point up 
to the settlement, the country has a park-like appearance, being in rough 
native grass, dotted about with clumps of pohutukawa, and, with the patches 
of native cultivations, looks very pretty. 
We have now made the circumference of the island, and arrived back at 
our starting-place, Opo Bay. 
Tuhua, or Mayor Island, does not offer any very great attraction to the 
ordinary tourist; but to the geologist, student of nature, or artist, it is very 
interesting. 
Arr. LIV.—On the Establishment of a Grand Hotel and Sanatorium in the 
Rotorua District. By James Stewart, M.Inst.C.E. 
[Read before the Auckland Institute, 27th October, 1884.] 
Tur purpose of this paper is to endeavour to draw attention to what may 
be done by the initiation on a grand scale of a combined sanatorium and 
hotel for tourists in the Rotorua District, comprising also the management 
