DOMINION’S BEAUTY

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 424, 4 May 1937, Page 7

DOMINION’S BEAUTY

America’s Surprise Auckland, May 4. Predicting he would live to see the day when 100,000 tourists came to the Dominion annually, Mr Fitzhugh Green, a distinguished American author, expressed surprise at the average New Zealander’s lack of appreciation of the beauties of his own country in an interview to-day. Mr and Mrs Green have been spending the summer at Taupo and will return to the United States by the Monterey. They built a bungalow near the Huka B'alls. where they intend to reside for some months each year. “New Zealand is not appreciated by New Zealanders,” he said. “Your country and its people’s attitude might be analagous to a very busy man with a beautiful wife. He does not realise how attractive she is until

other men begin to admire her. Until visitors convince New Zealanders of the beauty of their country they will not appreciate it.” New Zealand captivated the tourist by its interest as well as its beauty, Mr Green said. The United States possessed some wbnderful attractions, but they were extended over a very wide area. In New Zealand they were crammed into a very small compass. In three hours’ travel ling by motor-car from his bungalow •at Huka Falls he could see as much beauty in contrasting scenes of mountains, plains and rivers as would be viewed in as many or more days in America. It was perhaps strange that half the world knew nothing of it. j