Tourist Manager Issues Challenge
SOUTH NOT NEGLECTED WILL WAGER HIS POSITION Prcsi r Association. CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. At a meeting of the executive of the Canterbury Progress League a letter was received front Mr. B. M. Wilson, general manager of the Tourist Department, denying that the South Island was neglected in the preparation of itineraries. The letter ends: “To end this matter, I give you a straight-out challenge to prove your statement. “If you can show, to the satisfaction of the Minister or the Public Service Commissioner, that any responsible officer of the Tourist Department has advised visitors not to go to the South Island, as there was little or nothing to see there, or has in any other way tried to divert tourist traffic from the South Island, I shall call upon that officer to resign. More than that, I shall send in my papers at the same time.” "This challenge is contingent on vour placing your position on the other side of the scales.” Members of the executive expressed surprise at the tone of the letter, and * motion was carried, approving of the action taken by the special committee, in protesting at the discrimination show n against the South Island.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 298, 8 March 1928, Page 15
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201Tourist Manager Issues Challenge Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 298, 8 March 1928, Page 15
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