MR. REESE REPLIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 298, 8 March 1928, Page 15

MR. REESE REPLIES

DID NOT ACCUSE MANAGER "RESULT OF NATURAL CAUSES” Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH. To-day. Replying to Mr. B. M. Wilson concerning the tourist propaganda, Mr. Dan Reese says in his letter, “I must confess that the tone of your letter surprises me very much. Coming: from one holding such a responsible position, your own reputation, and the esteem in which you are held, precludes anybody, for one moment, from suggesting that you personally would contribute to tlie cause of the South Island complaint regarrding the tourist traffic, or that you would in any way encourage such a policy. So why take the criticism in such a personal manner? ‘There is no gainsaying the fact that the South Island has not had its fair share of this tourist traffic, and some people here suggest that sinister influences are at work in the Far North, but I think the reasons are to be found in natural causes. "It is astonishing how few South Island people have beer, to Rotorua, and how few North Island people have been to Mount Cook. So if your officers in the North, and particularly in Australia, are not men who know the scenic wonders of the South Island, then it is easily explained why the Rotorua district gets such preference.”