AUSTRALIA WEEK
Christchurch Launching Australia Week was launched in Christchurch yesterday with the cracking of dozens of bottles of Australian claret, reisling, sauterne, burgundy, hock, moselle, sherry and pink champagne over the bows of selected guests. The hosts were Mr M. G. B. Coultas, the Australian Government Trade Commissioner for the South Island, and the Australian National Travel Association, Qantas Empire Airways, Ltd., the British Overseas Airways Corporation, Ansett-A.N.A. and Trans Australia Airlines.
Mr D. W. McNteol, the Australian High Commissioner, said tourism could be the essential factor in the growth of Christchurch as a city. “And your greatest source of tourists is across the Tasman.”
Mr McNieol said this was a burgeoning era of tourism—people had money and they wanted to spend it. The things New Zealand had to offer to the tourist were not the things that Australia had to offer, and together Australia and New Zealand could make a “hell of a lot of money” out of tourism.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31003, 8 March 1966, Page 18
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