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Apex Car Rentals has branches conveniently located throughout New Zealand. If you would like to talk directly with any of our rental car branch managers please use the number listed below. If you are calling from outside New Zealand please use the "click to talk" feature or call +64-3-379-6897

For auckland car hire call:
Ian Berrington 0800-737-009

For christchurch rental cars call:
Jeff Kerkhoffs 0800-10-50-55

For wellington car rental call:
Adrie Kruiniger 0800 300-110

For picton rental cars call:
Adam Rennick 0800 422-744

For queenstown car hire call:
Dan Gerard 0800 53-11-11

For nelson rental cars call:
Dave Thorn 0800 939-777

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Neil Richards 0800 93-95-97

NZ TRAVEL TIPS: When to come to NZ? ...New Zealand is suitable to visit all year round. Travelling is more pleasant, however, during the warmer summer months (November to April). The Christmas period is the busiest, with the schools holidays in the second half of December and all of January. We, therefore, recommend November, February and April as the best months to travel in New Zealand. Skiing is, of course, only possible during the winter months and is usually best during July and August.

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...take the scenic route with apex car rentals. sample extract from "new zealand driving holiday" guidebook.

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wellington to new plymouth

Fifty minutes drive north of Wellington, the Kapiti Coast is well known for its exceptional cheese and unique flora and fauna. Many of NZ’s most endangered birds reside on this coastline which leads north to Wanganui, a historic riverboat town. It once formed part of a thriving tourist route between Auckland and Wellington, and today this bygone era is recreated aboard NZ’s only coal-fired paddle steamer, the PS Waimarie. Further north the symmetrical volcanic cone of Mt Taranaki can be seen clearly on the horizon. Taranaki’s bulbous coastline is tucked firmly around twothirds of this zen-like mountain, providing NZ’s most consistent surf conditions. Access is provided courtesy of SH45, the Surf Highway, which follows around the coast from Hawera to New Plymouth.

day two: wanganui to hawera with a side trip up the whanganui river road


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“Donna wake up,” Bob whispers urgently at some ridiculous hour of the morning. He awoke at 4 am and, not wishing to disturb me (until now) read a book about the River Road. But it seems he can wait no longer, we must go to Jerusalem – without delay! And so it is that we follow the emerald Whanganui River up a route that is more like a driveway, so friendly are its inhabitants. Near Koriniti we stop and chat to a group of pig hunters who heave a glossy black boar up the riverbank. “It’s a big’n,” says Tex, who invites us to share in the pig which will be cooked on a spit, in true Whanganui River style.

Sadly we decline and leave tooting the horn. Bob comments on how welcoming everyone is. As we continue our drive Bob entertains me with an account of his early morning read including the Maori legend of the forming of the Whanganui River. Mt Taranaki lost a fierce battle with Mt Tongariro over the fair maiden Pihanga (a smaller mountain in the central plateau) and fled to Taranaki, carving the Whanganui River and filling it with his tears. Later, when Europeans set up farms, transport was required to get their produce into town so in 1891 the paddle steamer Wairere began a regular service.

When we arrive in Jerusalem, St Joseph’s Church casts a mirrored image of its steeple upon the river. A Roman Catholic Mission was established here in 1854 and the late James K Baxter, an influential NZ poet, formed a community here in the 1960s and wrote the Jerusalem Sonnets. His grave is at St Joseph’s where Sisters Sue, Laboure and Anna Maria, the guardians of this church and its grounds warmly welcome us. Sister Sue makes us tea and then leads us to Baxter’s grave...

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