GREAT COUNTRY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 726, 29 December 1933, Page 7

GREAT COUNTRY

i AMERICAN CONSIDERS MR. I ZANE GREY'S STRICTURES UNWARRANTED. NEW ZEALAND'S HOSPITALITY. j "The undoubted charm of New ZeaI land strikes one forcibly after a sojourn in the East with its teeming population and general unrest," stated Mr. Marc T. Graeen, an American . journalist, who returned from' a visit to Japan and China recently. "I carried away with me the happiest recollections of the hospitality met with during my former stay in this Dominion, and it is good to be back among you again. You can imagine how good a country with attractions like Mount Cook appears .after the sweltering heat of the China seas, and I would have given something at times to have been able to transport myself on a magic carpet back to the Hermitage occasionally. I was particularly incensed while in Tahiti recently to hear of Mr. Zane Grey's remarks, published in one of the Los Angeles papers, in which he mentioned something about the New Zealander's un* friendly attitude towards Americans in general. I feel that this is quite unwarraiited, and I intend taking the matter up in th'e American Press on my return. Personally, I have met nothing but courtesy and considemtion from all with whom I have come in contact, and to my mind this is one of the greatest pleasures a visit to the Dominion affords. "Your motor services and' hotel accommodation are as good .as one would find in any part of the world, the general eomfort and standard of the cars heing exeellent. I have travelled all over the country here, and so speak from experience. It is unfortunate that just as New Zealand was becoming more widely known throughout the United States that world conditions should have so adversely affected the general trend of tourist traffic to the Pacific,- but this is only a passing phase which will be remedied in the near future. New Zealand will then come into her own as one of the leading tourist centres of the world."