SEE NEW ZEALAND FIRST.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 August 1925, Page 8

SEE NEW ZEALAND FIRST.

— * ■ GUIDES FOR THE TRAVELLER. MOTORISTS' CAMPS ATTRACTIVE. "See New Zealand First" is a policy that has been placed before New Zealanders by the New Zealand Tourist League, which has an information bureau in shed 19 at the Olympia Motor Show. An attractive array of photos and pictures of New Zealand scenery proves tiiat the man who puts off seeing New Zealand until he has toured elsewhere is missing some of the most beautiful scenery on earth. Visitors to the motor show have shown extraordinary interest in the display of publicity concerning New Zealand scenic \vonderß*>'On r "the 6peliiTl£"rilgnt" of tlie show while the stall attendants were at tea, the first rush of visitors raided the League's stall and carried off all decorative booklets and everything that was not fastened to the walls. Besides inquiries about the thermal regions, which are a never-ending source of wonderment, the public has shown a great interest in South Island tours; particularly those that can be worked with a trip to the Dunedin Exhibition. A picturesque exhibit of Westland's mountain splendours has drawn hundreds of inquiries, and as the supply of illustrated booklets has. run low oifers to purchase them have been made. The League has also on show some pictures of motorist's camps in America, with maps indicating where similar camps are being established in New Zealand. Motorists have evinced great interest in the camps, and they will be very popular when fully developed. Jteside the people who are contemplating a tour and are seeking information, there are. many others who eye the brightly coloured books of travel and plan to acquire them. The schoolboy hangs around the maps with a "please give mc one, mister," and intimates that he finds them useful at school; advised to wait until he is big enough to travel he waits an opportunity to furtiveh; possess himself of the picture of his owii country: The thrifty habits of recent arrivals from the Old Land is notorious, and the sign "Please ask for booklets—they are free" seems to many new chums a heaven-sent opportunity of. acquiring without expense souvenirs' of New Zealand* to send to their kin in the Old Land, and the black looks that greet the query as to what trips they intend to book shows the disappointment felt that the League is not supplying free view books for folks in the "Old Land. , ' One mother with a bi<* family was highly indignant that Johnny and Mary and all the others, could not acquire an armful of NewZealand literature. She declared with emphasis that the children went to school and liked these pictures of pretty places.