TOURIST SEASON

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 425, 9 January 1933, Page 7

TOURIST SEASON

PARTIES TO DOMINION NOW RAPIDLY INCREASING | ■ i "HARDY ANNUALS" RETURN ; A promising feature .of tbis year's l holiday season may be observed in l the flood-tide of overseas tourists that I seems to be setting towards these > shores. In Christmas week alone 1 Auckland saw three large liners land t each its quota of anglers, alpinists, \ deer-stalkers and sight-seers, to the \ gen eral gratification of the tradesv people and the immediate profit of I the hostelries, says the Free Lance. \ The Marama and the Monterey | from Sydney brought in one day an | aggregate of six hundred passengers, | of whom four hundred disembarked | to spend varying periods in New Zea- | land. The other two hundred pro- | ceeded by the Matson boat to Los | Angeles. Not, we hope, without leavI ing some dollars behind them! | Next day eame the Rangitata on i I a fast trip from England, bringing | I out 148 passengers. Some among | these are "hardy annuals," eminent | men all, but hest known to New ZeaI landers for their exploits as slayers | of swordfish, talcers of trout, and | sturdy stag-hunters. May their wel- | corne here be ever as warm as they | would wish it! I Scanning the passenger lists of this | vessel one notices such names as Mr. | White Wickham, the deep-sea angler, | who has visited New Zealand regular- ^ ly since 1921; Mr. J. Matheson, wellknown as a fly-fisherman both here and in England; Sir Phillip Lee Brocklehurst (accompanied by Ladj Brocklehurst) , who sailed under Shackleton on the Nimrod during the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907, rt Sir Phillip also intends to give the j ' trout a fly. | I Then there is Captain J. Haggas retired, of the 15th Hussars, whc comes in pursuit of pleasure and the chamois. And Lieut.-Commander C !! Branson, formerly a gunnery offieei || 011 the Diomede, who aims now a1 is flm b'rmt. in T.ake Tauno. One

if sees, too, the name of Major Kerr ISmiley, for fifteen years a member of the British House of Commons, and uncle of Sir Hugh Kerr Taylor, Bar|f onet. The Major, who is well known I in racing circles, has come to New jf Zealand for the fishing, j Practically every mail, now, accord|i ing to the Hon. Mr. A. Hamilton, jf Minister in Charge of Tourist and || Publicity, brings advice of the depar- | ture of small tourist parties to the j! Dominion. Responsible officers at [| Home report an increasing interest ** shown in the Dominion as a tourist

+wmm "* - ^ - — country, and in that connection there is little doubt that the High Commissioner's Office there is rendering valu'able service., ' New Zealand scenic films are being 'circulated jthrough England,^ and these are assisted also by ■ special articles and photographs in English jour'nals. The part played, too, by our own illustrated weeklies and their 'Christmas supplements, an incheasing number of which are finding their way overseas each year, is by no means negligible.