THE TOURIST "TRAFFIC.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1634, 28 December 1912, Page 4

THE TOURIST "TRAFFIC.

NOT. SO MANY AUSTRALIANS THiS j YEAR. "The local -traffic for the holiday season," says Mr. H. Crampnd, local manager for Messrs; Thos.- Cook and Son,- "has been particularly good tliis year—better I fancy than any other years J. can remember as far as Wellington is .concerned. The number who have Jeft for Rotorua; arid the Wanganui River trips has been very large, and a great many have gone south ,to do the. Cold Lakes trip'.The Australian tourist traffic through Wellington is not so' bis.as-it was some years ago,- but iriost of the Australians who visit New Zealand come' by way of Auckland.- Besides Australia is now exploiting. its own tourist, trips energetically,- and a good many people would be diverted by the advertisements of the scenic attractions of that country. ..

, "I agree heartily with what Mr. A.- Si Biss said about so much being made in the Australian papers of the bad weather on the ooost of New Zealand, and the erroneous idea:it gives the piiblio of,the weather experienced as a general thing on tho coast. 'For instance, Mr.- M'Co'rriiack, manager of the South. Melbourne Cricket team, in remarking that he sup--posed they would-have a bad time going .to Lytteltpn on, Monday evening,- voiced the opinion held by the average Australian as to the weather experienced .in this vicinity. As a.matter of fact,nine out Of .every. ten- trips between Wellington:, arid Lyttelton are made in calni seas and without discomfort." ;