TOURIST DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 1 August 1907, Page 3

TOURIST DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENCE.

Some Queer Questions.

The following is a copy of a letter sent to the New Zealand Tourist Department by a resident of Hoult County, Montana, U.S. A., the spelling is distinctively and peculiarly his own : —“ While New Zealand is in the seas, don’t 3 t ou have a great deal of foggy weather or dampt weather; did New Zealand ever have any earthquakes or volcanoes ? Are the people trouble with enj T catearrh or lung trouble ? Do thex 7 have eny rheumatism ? Do thex 7 raise any fruit —what kind of fruit ? What are farming tools xx’orth, such as ploxx's, harrows, banisters or binders, as all of the tools have to be ship to New Zealand. I presume they 1 are dear? And what is the price of household goods, such as stox r es, bedsteads, chaires, and dishes ? What kind of grain do they rais, and what kind of grass? Do - vegetables grow good, such as potatoes, cabage, onions, carrots, mangles, turnips ? Can they • rais pumpkins, squash melons, and cumbers and tamatoes? can they rais eny corn ? What kind of people are the natives ? Are they warlike or are they peaceable ? What are the transportation rates from ’Frisco to New Zealand ? What day of the month does the steamer le'ax T e ’Frisco ? As this is all I can think of I will close.” Another from Palos Park, Cook County, • 111., runs as follo\x r s ; I seen in the orffis Farm and Poultry keview of St. Louis your adx r ertisement. I am interested and xvould like to studdy get better acquainted xvith the counter}', chief productions, wadges paid to carpenters and \x 7 at lumber seels for per thousand to, if cement and gravel is used to anj r extent for building purpis, and to xvat languages most spoken xvat present German and English speaking people, and I xx'ould like to no which of the two mail or femail you have the most of. ”