BIG TOURIST INFLUX

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 23, 20 October 1937, Page 15

BIG TOURIST INFLUX

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9 ' 9 ~ Expectations for Coming Seoson THE H0TEL PROBLEM

(By Telegraph-

WELLINGTON, Last Night. "Our most serioufl problem thisj iummer will be a shortage bf hotelj Bocommodation, not only at the majofj resorts, but at the smaller plhces," said Mr R, W .Mafshall, Wellington district manager of the Government Tourisb Bureau, to-day. Advance itinerariea from overseas officofl in Ehgland, AuStralia, and America indicate that the Coming toufist season will be the hbaviest ever experienced. In addition to the cruise shipS coming, there will be numbers of parties coming on cOndueted tours and Stayihg from 10 davs to three WeSkS in the Dominidn. "We have received, too, a large number of ittquiries from Amefican SoUrces owing to tourist traffic nOrmally directed to Japan and Ohina being diverted to New Zealand on account of the hoStilities in the East. ' ' The vanguard of Whalfc is expected to be the biggeSt army of tourists yet tO invade New Zealand in a singlO season, a party of mofe than 30 Australian primary prbdueefg, Will afrive in the Wanganella at Wellington on Wednesday next and will tour extensively through the North IslaUd daifying difetricts. Theirs will be a teturn viSit to that recentiy paid to Queensiafld and New South Wales by a party of New Zbaland farmera. Arrangements for tho tout are being made by the Government Tourist Bureau. Among the party will be Hon. M. P. Dunlop, M.L.C., generai pfesident of the New South Wales Primary Producers' Union; Alderman R. L. Fitzgerald, Mayor of Dungdg and vicepresident of the Union; Mr A. J. Taylor, secretary of the Upper Hunter district council of the union, and Mr L. G. Ashton, editof ef the "Primar^ Produce!." ThB visitors Will b6 officially weieomed by Goverhment fepresentatives ahd offielals of the New Zealand Farmers' UnioU. On Thursday they will drive to Palmerston North and visit Massey College, the dairy research institute, and the plant research station. On the way to Wanganui and Hawera they will stop tO inspect farms and dairy factories. They Will Oontintie by way Of New Plymouth, Waitomo, Hamilton and the Waikato dairy country, including the Ruakura State farm. They will see over the Arapuni power wofks and afforestation plantations 6n foiite to Rotorua. Before endiiig their tOur at Auckland they will travel to Tauranga and Te Aroha dairying districts, leiving Auckland 6a November 15. .