TOURIST LEAGUE

Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1933, Page 4

TOURIST LEAGUE

SOUTH ISLAND BODY MEETS

APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTIVE

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DUNEDIN, March 24

At a meeting held to-day the South Island (N.Z.) Tourist League was formed, the main object of which is to foster tourist traffic in the South Island. The following executive was set up:—President, Mayor R. S. Black; vice-president, Mr C. J. Errington; executive, Messrs Lord, Hinchley, and Jackson Purdie. It was further decided that the Progress Leagues 01 Canterbury, Marlborough and Nelson be asked to appoint representatives. Mr W. D. Steel, secretary of the Otago Expansion League, was appointed secretary, and Messrs Wigley and A. A. Paape were appointed to go into rte question of organisation and the formation of a company.

Mr Wigley said that if the League were going to function properly, they should establish a board with courage and vision to get on with the job, but be considered the proposed constitution of the League all wrong. The only way to get over the difficulty was to form a limited liability company along such lines that various hotels, tourist services and motor companies would pay .•■ mindly to the company, « percentage of their takings, beginning with say a quarter per cent, for the first year, and increasing each year by a quarter per cent,