HOW TOURISTS HELP
£1,000,000 A YEAR
Interesting figures showing tourists are helping the prosperity ot the Dominion are contained in a statement by Mr. W. J. Keys, who broadcast an address last night on tn attractions of the Dominion. i . “The Government Statistician that £1,000,000 is left in New Zeal f"7 by tourists each year. During the ia~ year 40,160 tours were booked the Government bureaux at a cost £154.879, showing an increase ol £68,722 on the previous year's bo ing. The number of tourists who ited New Zealand in the year 9,195, an increase of 2,830. . Last December. 1925, the s.s. ' C a A thia spent four days in New Zea ! n waters with a party of American tourists and £20.000 is said to been left here. . _ s . “If Honolulu with fewer tourist a sibilities than this land offers, a week’s sea journey from the Ame ■ continent, can attract 125.000 visitor* per annum, surely we should do D than draw only 5,000 visitorsi „ Australia only 35 days’ steam aw y-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 61, 3 June 1927, Page 10
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171HOW TOURISTS HELP Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 61, 3 June 1927, Page 10
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