TYPES OF TOURISTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7940, 13 January 1906, Page 6

TYPES OF TOURISTS.

This is the way "A Christmas Tripper" concludes a readable holiday article in the Post:—Most of the, enjoyment of the Queenstown trip is, to the refieotive visitor, the study of the tourist. The nativeborn is, anxious and chiefly concerned about his luggage and his meals. The Australian is a blithe, clean, and healthy person— pood friends with everybody, prepared to rough i 6, cheerfully unresehtful of crowding and hard knooks, eager to help you to obtain your hasty meal by the wayside between connecting trains But the Antipodean—the Britisher! He contrives to secure the best seat, he refuses to make room for anybody, he ia determined to stick to his seat, he elbows you to all points, his eye is a cold-blue battery of outraged stares, he will not oonverse, he speaks only to his own party, he does not think much of Wirnslaw and speaks of places called Ben Nevis, he carries 250 portmaateauxs, and treatb the stationmaster as a menial, he mono oolises the bread at the wayside meal—he is haughty and exclusive and unpopular. And he has a knack of always "getting there first." And the Antipodean She is the Antipodean He with frills and trimmings. Sometimes a stray Antipodean would be "left," and that was always an occasion for reioicing—a subject for sweeter memory than the opal and purple waters, the willows on the shore, the silent and mysteriously sombre mountains, the night winds, and the unattainable snow.