TOURIST RESORTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10521, 9 January 1912, Page 5

TOURIST RESORTS

HON. T. MACKENZIE DISSATISFIED. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night, r . The Hon. T. Mackenzie-Minister .in charge of the to-day informed a deputation from Hanmer which complained that several matters in ihear opinion required looking into, that tlie place ought to be leasee and managed. It was distinctly difficult, he said, to look after these pllaces firom sucli a distance. Did it not all 1 show that the Government was very foolish to bother. with these places at all. Ministers should have something else to do than to be bothered with the. administration' ,of> these "resorts.-. \ They couid never be made to pay, under existing condition®.. As Governments run institutions they would never be permanently satisfactory. "Tate Rotor ua," he continmed; "we have had more objections from Rotorua proportionately thfan from any other place. A great deal of this opposition' was carping criticism, but there is a lot of it merely political l . If.-Ro-toriiavisi not satisfied with what has been' done, what can be done with other places? A place like Hanmer could always be best managed by those resident audi interested in the place. Those people could do a great dteal of minor work, which did not involve a big cost." He pointed out that the Government had spent something like £IO,OOO in the last three years hi improvements in.andf about iHanmer. Me reiterated that ini his opinion the best thing, that could be done was (to lease the place as a sanatorium .