TOURIST TRAFFIC
SOUTH- ISLAND NOT GETTING ITS SHARE. TRAVEL ASSOCIATION’S COMPLAINT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. “The South Island is not receiving its rightful share,” stated a report presented to the annual conference of the South Island Travel Association by its director (Mr J. J. W. Pollard) this morning. The Mayor of Dunedin, Mr A. H. Allen, presided. Figures from the Tourist Department’s report were quoted, giving the number of tourists in New Zealand for the past three seasons as follows:— 1935-36, 14,284; 1936-37, 7,297; 1937-38, 9,532. These all represented increases on the pre-depression returns, but it had to be noted that at least 6,500 came on cruise ships and stayed for only a few days. Virtually none of those visitors came to the South Island. The estimates suggested that the total numbers of overseas tourists to the South Island last year was about five thousand, slightly more than a quarter of the total. The Tourist Department estimated the money brought by the visitors at £1,200,000.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1938, Page 6
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167TOURIST TRAFFIC Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1938, Page 6
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