DOMINION RESORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 116, 6 August 1927, Page 9

DOMINION RESORTS

etter financial position tribute to good management (.THE SUN'S Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Friday. An improvement in the financial Position of the Tourist Department is shown by its annual report, which was 'nv, ente< * *° ar hament to-day. revenue has increased from £6 989 t 0 an improvement of 0..83. The expenditure; has increased onc V to £76,378, or an increase £5,584. The difference between and e *penditure therefore is *1 14,704 ’ or £699 less than it was last year. HELP TO PRIVATE INTERESTS " ben if is considered that a great mount of the department’s work is d C r edited to but goes to other t™~ tments ’ such as Railways, CusreiwT’f 8 p F ivate says the port “the improvement must be conn ® re< * remarkable. At the same time, „ , e fhe department’s tourist re- ‘ . .. s or agencies has been starved, . G evei *y effort has been made to J™*. ec onomical working. In this mar, 60 * a dea * credit is due to the agers of the various resorts under control of the department. AN APPRECIABLE GAIN put * we have reduced the ditn»T en - Ce between revenue and expenf in years from £42,000 to npv ’ . The Tourist Department was Pa _. ln tonded to be directly a profitinstitution, but was estabof a view to the development th«iS?M St resorts, and as a help to hote* IIWa J S ’ the Customs Department, it in V - and other businesses, and Iau * *° maintain that it has fuland is fulfilling these functions.”