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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 32, 2 November 1920, Page 7

The barometer of tourist traffic in Now Zealand, so far as it can be read in tho Auckland Government lourist Bureau, is at "set fair" for fne coming season (stales the "Star"j. Already the number ot tourists passing through the bureau indicates a busy period lor ./hotels and boardinghouscs throughout tho Dominion. Indeed, lack of accommodation bids fair to be a problem for the lioxt live months. Re-establishment of tho ■ old lines of steamer.traffic is partly tho reason why tourists are, arriving here in increasing numbers. In tiie world of travel, so disorganised and upset by the war, tho normal is returning, and with it the tourist. Seventy-five per cent, of those who pass through 'tlio Government Bureaux are Now Zealanders, and most of the rest come from .Australia, with a sprinkling from the Homeland and elsewhere. Many are making an early tour this year in order to avoid the Christmas rush, '/"his month the full tide is expccted, and from then until March there will be no slackening.

When rescued in mid-Atlantic by the s.s. Mazama, of Icndon, two i'ronch fisliermon bad beon adriftf in an open boat for 12 days, during fivo of which thoy had only seaweed to eat.

(The oablo newp In this issue accredited to tho Ijondon "Times" has appeared in Wat journal, but only where expreSßlr stated la iiuoh news the editorial opinion it the '."Time*.")