AMERICAN TOURISTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 233, 2 October 1925, Page 8

AMERICAN TOURISTS.

ANOTHER PARTY COMING TO N.Z

Tours of New Zealand by personallyconducted parties of Americans are becoming increasingly popular. The third party organised within two years by Mr. Wheeler, of Pacific Tours, Limited, is coming out early next year. Mr. T. Walsh, secretary of the New Zealand Tourist League in Auckland, has just received a letter from Mr. Wheeler, announcing that he is bringing a party of 50 prominent Americans, mostly Masons and members of Rotary Clubs, and will arrive at Wellington by the Makura on January S next. They will do the South Island first, and then come back and do the North, finishing up at Auckland, where they will catch the Aorangi on February 16. The last party that Mr. Wheeler brought out was one of 40 members of a body known as the Aahmes Temple Shriners. They had a thoroughly enjoyable time, and the letter received by Mr. Walsh refers enthusiastically to the trip. In a very well got up booklet describing the forthcoming tour of the Masons and Rotarians, the New Zealand scenery is most enthusiastically described, and it shows what a splendid advertisement for the Dominion such parties are becoming. Each of these tourists pays a thousand dollars (£200) for his ticket, and that sum includes everything first class, the only thing the tourist has to find being tips and personal expenses, such as liquors, etc.