SEEING THINGS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1060, 24 February 1911, Page 5

SEEING THINGS.

• ITINERARY' OF AMERICAN _ TOUMSTS, ( The American takes his pleasure seri- ; ously.i. Me ho; the ; most -of hustfersi'when ho is'working at his own dollar-mill,'he absolutely .declines 'to • bother'about anything when on tour. So ;the custom"has grown up—it -- bad •< its ■ genesji 'in ■ Mark tlVain's "Innocents ' Abroad"—of making' up parties and engaging (in expert, to attend to all matters : of .business., map out .'itineraries,, plan pleasure;.trips,' interview.- hotel proprie- -. tors,-, au'd.itip' the call-boy and; waiters. Tho Raymond-Whitcomb • Company at- /• tend to ~this' sort of thing, in America, ■ and nt present.a. .party of their, clients is in Wellington under the guidanco of Captain 'Arthur , Akin-Higgins,; who, at one timo' v general 'manager -for;- Tho*. Cook'and'Son in Australia;'. The party, which arrived ,by tho, Corinthic, enjqyed : a motor: trip 7 over the, Rimutaka as far as, Fcntherston .onVWednesday, and. yes-. •• today were emnloyed in .' local ' sinht- ' seeing,'which is. to bo contiuued to-day. This , evening they leave, for Lyttelton and catch ■ the .11.55 a.m.- express tomorrow, for Dunedin. On Mpnday' foext: they leave . Dunedin for Invercargill,'- Otautau, CUftlon,' ahd-so,on;to Lako Manapouri.On ; ■ Maroh l'they coach to-ToAniiu; and between' then and March* D will drink in the . 6ceni(i glories!, along tho: T< Anau-Milford •; track. .They'will then .move on to Lumaden and- Quwnstown, returning to Dun- ■ ediri'(via" Cromwell) on March 13..,-Leav-intr Dunedin again on March 18, tho party wiH proceed' to Christchurch,,and frQm March,22.to .21 will engage in an exour- ' fiion fo. Akaroa. 'The Oliro Gorge-Nelson * j trip iollows,-thei party b"'n? duo at Nel- : 'son; on March'- 29, ;and Wellington on : March'3l.-; pn Monday, April 3,' the visi-. tors ,vrill commence just as comprehensive a'tour of the North Island." takinp in n th'o .'Wanvanui River. Taupo. Wairakei,' joto-' • rua.' To : Aroha, the Ruakura Caves, DarBsville.' Whangarei,' and. Auckland.,, % ' ,'L X? i ' '■■■