SCENIC BEAUTIES

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1930, Page 5

SCENIC BEAUTIES

AAIEIMCANS lAIPRESS'ED

SEVERAL TO RETURN

AUCKLAND, Dec. 3

'J he American tourist liner Malolo sailed this evening for Suva, Honolulu, and Sap FraneifSuo. A crowd' of 800 or 400 people gathered at the Queen s wharf to see the vessel depart. All the passengers were impressed with their five days’ stay in New Zealand, and a number of them announced their intention before the vessel sailed of returning to the Dominion on holiday ibent in the near future. • •

“Of all the places I have seen the two countries I want to- see more of are New Zealand and Japan,” said Air John J. Vo elk el, of New Orleans. “I hope' to come back in two years with my daughter and sample some injure of *hhe wonderful fishing you have at Rotorua. In the lake there I caught six of the largest rainbow trout I have ever seen, and they tell me i,t is nothing to get ten and twelve pounders at Taupe, Why, in America, if you land a three-pounder trout you put it on exhibition.” , /All the ptwesngers were kind in their references to New Zealand people decribing them as polite, hospitable, and courteous. “One does not. feel in the least .like an intruder in your country,” remarked, a woman passenger, "Everybody seemed pleased to see us and lots of people went out of their way to do us little kindnesses.” . WAITOMO AND ROTORUA. ,

Dr A. O. Cope,, of Pittsburg, said that when he got hack to America he would never pease to extol the wonder of the Glow-worm Cave at’ Waitomo: "That cave surpasses Anything I have seen on. this cruise,” die .said, "and I rank it as the third most wonderful eight I have seen in my life, coming after Takou glacier in Alaska, which I saw under the Arctic twilight, and the crater of Kialauea, in Hawaii, which I saw in action in 1921. It is unfortunate for you that we in America seem to know more about Australia than this Dominion, whether because it is bigger on the map or for other reasons I do not know, but the situation should really be reversed, of that I am convinced. You have natural resources that cannot be beaten anywhere in the world and the fact that only twice in vour history has your country had a financial deficit is something to boast about.”

(Several passengers who played on the Rotorua golf links spoke in praise of the course and its situation. Mr Henry C. Flower, a prominent Kansas City, banker, pronounced it to be the finest golf links in the world. "Rotorua need take its hat off to no one so long as it has that golf course,” bo declared.