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GREAT FOR TOURISTS

» — ' ■ . ■■■ MR. GRAHAM MOFFATT ON -NEW , ' ', ZEALAND-. Before leaving Wellington for Hobart yesterday afternoon, Mr. Graham Moffat, the talented playwright and actor, who wrote ■ "Bunty Pulls the Strings," discoursed on New Zealand over a oup of afternoon tea. ' 'This,is a grand little country," • said, Mr. Moffat. ."When I say that I don't mean as regards the stage, though I must say that we have been very well treat-' ed. I spoke more in the sense that it is a great place for the tourist. We have been fortunate enough to see a good deal of the country usually denied to player,folk. Whilst the company was playing some of the. smaller towns, Mrs. Moffat and myself, visited. Mount Cook and Queenstown—motored the whole way. Myl what a trip it is I I am' certain that this is going to be one of the greatest touring grounds in future, vbecause the.country embraces such an infinite ; variety of sights. In the South there is scenery among your ■mountains of grandeur not excelled in the world, and 'in the North there is this wonderland—this maze of boiling, burning earth.". ; "■, ■ ■ Mrs. Moffatt: "I wadna like to live there—it's all too uncertain."- •

"The South for' beauty, the. North for interest," said Mr. MoilaA. "And d'ye- know what I was delighted with as much as ' anything—the glow-worm caves at Waitomof-my I they outshine ■the,stars in .'the .heay.ens... Then we went to Waitaki, ' and saw bubbling holes and boiling fountains until I confess I was a little, tired of it all. There is so much *of -it. that one is apt to be surfeited with such uncanny. doings. Still, it is a beautiful apd wonderful country,- and wo will not forgot it for a longtime." . Asked as to" the prospects -of an. other tour, Mr. Motfat said that _a good deal dopended on how war conditions, combined with the effects of tho drought,: affected theatrical business in Australia., 'If there was a reasonable chance of: doing woll he might, arrange to produce his other playi "A Scrape o' tli' Pen." - To':do that he would nave to import extra people,' as the cast was larger than that or "Buiity," , , and as everyone had t0..b0 genuinely Scotch and fit their roles' ; esactly, it was not likely that he would be able to fill up iii Australia'. . Both ; Mr. and Mrs. Mojfat confess to an intense' desire to appear out,here in "A Scrape o' th' Pen.", as they, both, have great parts in the., comedy. If the tour could be arranged, New Zealand would certainly be considered.': : •. '~' '.• .. ,'■ > .

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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2335, 17 December 1914, Page 6

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428

GREAT FOR TOURISTS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2335, 17 December 1914, Page 6

GREAT FOR TOURISTS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2335, 17 December 1914, Page 6

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