LONDON BOUND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 408, 17 July 1928, Page 12

LONDON BOUND

RECORD CROWDS GO nm* NEW ZEALAND H WEMBLEY YEAR BEATEN The month of May establish cord for the number of New visitors arriving in London and _*** ins their names tor the fir,, the visitors’ book at X £w House. The number of first in the book was no less than skL' more than the previous record ILhed in May. 19J4—We mbley ***>■ .May is always the peak month New Zealand visitors, who are ally anxious to arrive in plenty for the many events of the w* season tstates the ’New y. 48 Nows ). The following table*!!!!* an interesting comparison of this* * figures with those of last tear

EXTRAORDINARY GROWTH In recent years Utere has bee a „ : -\ Kfowth in Um n * O. New Zealand visitors to Where one visitors' book served < two years before 1924, one last, only a year now. The growth u of all proportion to the increase , New- Zealand's population, and i- . a wonderful tribute to the attract,, 4 of London that it can draw so mk' 5 people from the ends of tits earth ** It is a well-known fact that x_ Zealanders, for the most part. re L-. a trip Home” as the logical sequST: their work, in whatever sphere it be. and there is an increasing nu mt ,; of people who have begun to reals, that to get the full value from sac* a visit it should not be postponed tea long. To visit London is a liberal edv. cation, and if it were possible to >,* range for more New Zealand teacher* to spend six months or a year her, bow much more valuable would He, teaching become!

January .. . 1&24. J **J. Isa « 71 1* ebruary .. . ill »« »3 *» r4 April .. .. , 1.135 3:1 i.m