OUR SCENIC RESORTS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1927, Page 4

OUR SCENIC RESORTS

AMERICAN'S IMPRESSED. WELLINGTON. ,M:mh -Ti. A eompletely new territory full of prospective tourists for Xow Zealand is likely to be effectively drawn upon as the result of a trial visit recently I>nid to some of the northern beautv spots by Mr Frank Reedy, ..I Dallas ’iThe i.hject of the visit of .Mr Reedv. who was accompanied by a small partv of sight-seers from Southcan Tpvrc:. assembled at short notice, was to test Xow Zealand as a field for future organised tourist parties on a much larger scale. The Government Publicity Office placed the usual facilities at the disposal of the visitors, and a member of the staff. Mr R. \V. Fenton, accompanied the party on the tour, which, of course. in< Ruled Roto fun. The tourists were greatly impressed with Auckland as a city, but were rather disappointed with the thermal activity at Whakarewarewe, which they said was not measurable to their own attraction at the Yellowstone National Park. The Maoris, however, served as ample compensation, and the visitors

were unanimous in their declaration iib.it the procure of t lie Natives at Rotorua should prove an excellent magnet to attrnii American tourists to the district. The Native entertamJ tin ni they attended was described by j them as an immense delight. The lakes i also appealed to the visitors, who stat"d thui any one lake o! the same size ill America would have been provided with a large hostel close at hand, l ake Louise was staled to be no more beautiful than any they had seen here, yet thousands of people visited it annually. The visitors spoke appreciatively of the general scenic effects between Auckland and Rotorua, stating that what they had seen in New Zealand caused them to regret that they had not spent more time in the Dominion, and less in Australia, lielore their departure by the Tolua for the Island-. the party were shown a film of the South Island beauty spots, which impressed them greatly. Mr Reedy indicated that the tourist potentialities of the Dominion were stub that next year he intended to bring out from his State a party of between fifty and sixty tourists, who would tarry out a fortnight’s tour, "doing" both the North and the South Islands.