"Big Bay"

NZ Truth, Issue 1145, 10 November 1927, Page 6

"Big Bay"

THE Tourist Department is the arm of the Civil Service m particular whose officers should not be enmeshed m red-tape entanglements and rules and regulations. For do they not have to extend the glad, hand and chirpy greeting to distinguished overseas and other visitors? The department must have realized this when they planted Lionel Bayf eild ! m the managerial chair of the tourist bureau at Christchurch, for he is not one to over-burden himself with pernickety office, detail. ; Bayfieid is big, breezy and blessed with much bonhommie. On the West Coast, from which he hails — where they breed a race of four-square, jovial, genial fellows— he is known to a circle of intimates as "Big Bay." - He is quite a well-known figure m mo3t parts of Canterbury and Westlarfd. If you consult him professionally with well-lined pocket-book and confess to a desire to "do" those provinces, he will sketch out a truly entrancing itinerary with the skill of a Baedaker and conjure up before your eyes visions of snow-capped majestic Mount Cook; glistening glaciers; and peluccid, purling streams m which the trout are always jumping.