N.Z. TRAVELLING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 337, 26 September 1932, Page 3

N.Z. TRAVELLING

"DELIGHTFULLY LEISURELY" SAYS WASIIINGTON VISITOR. "The air of leisureliness about travel in New Zealand is a delightful thing to me," declared Dr. Allon Peebles, a visitor from Washington, who has returned to Christchurch from a trip to the Franz Josef Glacier. An amusing feature of the journey to the West Coast, in his opinion, was the stop for morning tea. No stops were made in the United States except in the case of tourist trains, and those stops were very rare. "The leisureliness noticeable in the Dominion might he a little unbusiness- ; like, but there was a certain delight- | ful feeling in lcnowing that one did not have to move to schedule. Such pleasant pieces of informality simply did not occur in th's United States. It was rather amusing to get into a bus which, after starting late, would probably call at one place for i a letter and might move off to an_ | other place perhaps to piclc up some laundry before leaving on the journey proper. Dr. Peebles had a good word for the New Zealand railways, for, computing roughly, he considered that the passenger fares were 8S per cent. cheaper than those in the Unitea States, while there were in the Dominion special opportunities for re_ duced rates. While it might be true that the New Zealand railways showed a deficit, it had to he remembered that the rates were beneficial to the public.