TRAVEL TO-DAY.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1928, Page 1

TRAVEL TO-DAY.

“Travel, which used to be tlie rare privilege of tlie few, has become the ■ ordinary pleasure of the many. Whole classes of people who in the old days never stirred from their native counties, and but rarely, perhaps, from their native townships, are to-day beginning to look to travel, even quite distant travel, as a natural relief from the monotony of their daily work. For I to admire and for to see, they wander away to lands which to their fathers were mere names and to their grandfathers, perhaps, scarcely even that; to return at the end-of three weeks or a month at most from journeys which not so very many years ago it would have heen impossible to accomplish in double or treble the time. Decidedly the world grows smaller. Does it grow happier, or wiser, or even healthier for the change. No one who compares honestly the lot of the ordinary man and woman of to-day with the lot or those similarly situated a Tiundrcd, fifty or even twenty-five years ago can doubt which, other tilings being equal, is to be preferred.”—“Daily News” (London).