BAD ROADS PROVE CHECK ON TOUKRISTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 347, 7 May 1928, Page 8

BAD ROADS PROVE CHECK ON TOUKRISTS

AGED VISITORS FEB STRAIN It will be a mild shock to New Zealand Government, as as to the people themselves. ♦ learn that tourists from are cutting short their at*/* 5 this country through the via?L* tudes of rough roads and q.-T. ally hard travel to PlsaaunsL sorts. The assertion that this is hap**, is made by Mr. Goorgc Russeil an industrialist from Kenya, *2? now in Auckland. Mr. Mayers, who possesses an mate knowledge of the Xew the 'eighties. expresses amaSlj | that the roads leading to the u>resorts are in such bad least 70 per cent, of your tors are getting on in vears, and ** not stand the rough travel over 0 ? worts of your roads.” he said Uwi when commenting upon the faciS afforded the visitor to this countrv “In Canada, England and e.eevh* 1 have been I have met folk chief comment upon New Zealand v been about its atrocious roads. Mr. Mayers was in New Zeaian** lad in ISBI. and after roughing it hi for some years, he entered the trade in Queensland. La*er estabiw ing himself in Kenya, which k(Tfon to be a land of opportunity for one liis experience of sugar-rrowliij . treatment. To-day he is chief & big sugar-refining company th*re lie was used to roughing It he but even with his experience to aa port him. he found the going very on our Xew Zealand roads. He his party, had travelled through South Island, and later Traversed u North Island thor< ighly. j n cases he lauded the other places he was disappointed. rakei he deemed to be re marks blc* b the hotel, with the intermittent li*v ing system, was an unpleasant- * rangement, and the calmly manner in which the man loofc after the lighting system inform visitors that “I am going to bed *»• and all the lights will l © off in & minutes.” caused them to wonder they had come to the right place. T. hotels, generally speaking, were t*j passable, but in many cases the nsu agers did not seem to care about u comfort of travellers; on«? of the mo courteous managers was found in (• backblocks at Taihape. The hotels the big cities, he thought, were oui modern and comfortable.