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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5843, 20 December 1879, Page 3

Referring to Messrs. Cook and Son’s intention of including Australia in their circular tours round the world, the South Australian Advertiser says that there can be no doubt that it is a very good idea so far as the Melbourne Exhibition is concerned. The agencies of the well-known firm, which have been established in the principal cities in England, the Continent, and America, and even in various parts of Asia, will prove most effective channels for advertising the exhibition, while the travelling facilities which Messrs. Cook offer their constituents are very considerable. Them tourist business, commenced in a very small way about 30 years ago, has grown into an immense institution; and the money turned over by the firm every year is said to amount to many millions sterling. The prejudices which were.it first entertained against the system, and probably with good reason, have ceased to exist, as the arrangements have become more and more perfect ; and the list of persons who travel with Messrs. Cooks’ tickets at the present day includes people of all ranks, from the Emperor of Brazil, the