TOUR OF DOMINION
Australian Industrialists and Farmers VISIT TQ HAWKE'S BAY A large party of Australian business people, bankers, industrialists, pastoralists, and farmers will leave MeL Bourne on March 9 next on a comprehensive month's "Reso" tour of New Zealand. "Reso" is a contraction of the word resources, and is the name given to an annual tour conducted by a special train through various parts of Australia and organised by the Victorian Government Railways. This will be the first "Reso" tour outside the Commonwealth. "Reso" tours have been arranged each year with the object of "mutual bptterment of knowledge of the industry and resources of Australia." This tour of the Dominion is an entirely new departure. The personnel of "Reso" tours is stated to be men of standing in the business "world, together with o sprinkling of country people. The party leaves Milbourne on the Maunganui on Wednesday, March 9. On Saturday, March 12, the Maunganui arrives at and cruises into Milford Sound, afterwards going to Bluff. At Bluff fifegins an extremely comprehensive tour of the Dominion. The tour embraces Dunedin, Otago gold sluicing and fruit growing, Queenstown and the southern lakes, the Hermitage and Tasman Giacier, Timaru, the Canterbury Plains and Christchurch. Then the party goes to Wellington, Palmerston North, Napier, Hastings, Rotorua," Taupo, Hamilton and Auckland. After Auckland* the "Reso" tourists turn south to Waitomo Caves, New Plymouth, Wanganui and Wellington, arriving in the capital city on Tuesday, April 5 and sailing the same night by the Awatea for Sydney. The greater part of the tour will be made by road with the exception Pf '> rail joqrney between Christchurch and Lyttelton and between Wellington and Napier, and the boat journey between Christchurch and Lyttelton. This# "Reso" tour is somethjng quffe new to New Zealand and it is to be hoped that it will be the forerunner of many pf P sinular nature in the future. * *
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 82, 30 December 1937, Page 6
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