COMMERCIAL AND TOURISTS' GUIDE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 53, 20 March 1901, Page 2

COMMERCIAL AND TOURISTS' GUIDE.

The handy little pocket guide issued b; the N.Z. Express Co. is in all respect worthy of the up-to-date spirit of enter prise shewn by this well known Com puny. The amount of ioformatioi which has beeh compressed into a smal Epacc speaks volumes for the intelligen and methodical methods used by th compiler, Commencing with a campac calendar, the next, and one of the mos important pages, is that devoted to i table of contents. Amongst the itsm of general use to travellers and othen [ire the dates of the Frisco mails, p'jsta telegraph, and telephone regulation md chargis, railway tourist fcxoursi u Fares, tables of distances, railway regu ktions and time tables, steamar services :oach services, parcel rates, a variety o general information relating to banks exports and imports, wharfage rates ate. In connection with the various tranches ni»d agencies there is a verj jraphic and concise sketch of each ol ;he towns with particulars of route.ind distances to places of merest in ;he locality and the day on which tht itatutery balf holiday is obsorvad, aUc ;ab and carriage hire. In the ehort desiriptions of places the writer has fihowr narked ability in striking contrast tc ;hat manifested in the brochure ssued by the New Plymouth Harboui 3oard. The fullest information is given is to the Company's business traosacions from its inception up to the preent time. V> 'ion it i*. stated that their iperations iDcluda collection axid duivtry of parcels to all parts of the olany and the outer world, reception, torage and forwarding of tcurisW taggjg", temovat and storage of furniure, acting as forwarding and cue ems igent?, it will be seen that the publicaion of the guide was not only well ustified, but a work of necessity, as veil as a great convenieace ta the >ublic. -