Tourists Mean Cash

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 17, 7 November 1930, Page 34

Tourists Mean Cash

Visitors Buy Well

are often told by .visitors from other countries that we ought to de more to encourage tourist traffic to New Zealand. And, indeed, it would appear’ to be profitable when one reads that the shopkeepers. in Hurope benefit annually to the amount of nearly £3,000,000 from the summer "invasion" of Americans. Bvery liner leaving a British or Continental port has great rooms filled with purchases made after a tour of the shops of the principal European cities. It is noteworthy that goods bought in London predominate in this amazing collection, which includes such varied articles as men’s clothes, from fashion-

able London tailors, lace from Nottingham, cakes from Scotland, and cream from Somerset. The shipping companies do their best to help by instituting a receiving system, by means of which intending passengers may have goods sent direct to the company’s office at the required port of embarkation. The tourist season in New Zealand is drawing near, bringing with it the usual parties of American visitors, who might be interested in special displays of New Zealand goods. It seems a pity not to capture even a small fraction of that £3,000,000-it might help to pave the way to Auckland, as well as to prosperity.