FARTHEST NORTH IN 
NEW ZEALAND. 
A MEMORABLE MOTOR TOUR 
Cape Maria Van Diemen, Te Reinga, 
Spirits Bay, and Parengarenga. 
The Interesting Country of the 
Far North. 
By Str GrorGe IENWICK. 
In fulfilment of a long-cherished desire the 
writer recently paid a visit to much of the 
historic ground in the far north of the 
Dominion, accompanied by his son, Dr Fen- 
wick, of Auckland. We embarked on the 
Northern S.S. Company's steamer Manaia 
at 11 p.m. on Easter Monday, 17th April, 
having first got my son’s car on board, as 
we intended to commence a long motor tour 
immediately after reaching Whangarel. 
With the aid of an obliging steward I got 
settled down in a lower berth of one of the 
Manaia’s small cabins, much too far aft to 
be pleasant had the weather proved to be 
unpropitious. But any fear as to this 
vroved to be groundless, and we had a 
peaceful trip northward, and entered 
Whangarei heads about 6 a.m., and reached 
Onerahi. the outlying port of Whangarei, 
an hour later, passing Limestone Island o 
the way. ‘Thence we left by train_ for 
Whangarei an hour and a half later, W han- 
garei is a pleasant and prosperous little 
town with 4000 inhabitants, with its daily 
newspaper, the Northern Advocate, to keep 
