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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 107, 9 May 1927, Page 12

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NEW ZEALAND * ABROAD.

AN AMERICAN CITIZEN'S IDEAS

COUNTRY OF WONDERFUL

OPPORTUNITIES,

"New Zealand is a country with wondetful opportunities,"' said Colonel EdWard P. Bailey, M.D., an American citizen, who is on his way back from a visit to Australia and New Zealand. '•Hut you arc riot advertised enough," he added. "I have travelled through the North Island' apd, ; 3 think you have ■» goldmine in Rotorua and Wairakei,"

flic told a " Star" representative this morning, "but here again there !s want of enterprise,, and ycu are losing many wealthy American tourists. You must improve your, accommodation. The •hotels are cold. Why this should be with all those millions of gallons of hoi water going to waste I don't know. Surely some means could be adopted by which it "ould be milised. When I

asked for a reason I was told that no pipes would stand against the corrosion. But surely some method could be discovered by which the difficulty could be •overcome. If the Americans had the -places they would soon discover some means by which that water could be 'used foe such a useful purpose.". Chain of Hotels. ' F Colonel Bailey' went' on to say thai [four wealthy American families who ■ had intended staying in the Dominion . !i'or some time, had made up their minds Ho leave the country simply because' of 'the coldness of accommodation houses in the thermal regions. "Such a thing [should not be," he" continued. "There fare thousands of wealthy Americans who . want to . come to Australia , and New 'Zealand, but when their countrymen get back and tell them, of happenings down -this way they more .often,, than not declare the visit off. ,1 am so impressed with the tourist possibilities of your country," he said, "that when I get back to America I am going, to endeavour to influence financial interests, to build a chain of modern; up-to-date .hotels throughout the. tourist resorts, of New Zealand, and particularly the North Island." - - i ? » * ■-.• As for advertising New Zealand, Colonel Bailey said this country was similarly placed to Australia in that, respect. It only had a representative in New York. There was no representative of either country.. throughout the great west. In his opinion Both countries want to go in', for ptibf jelty campaigns in the West more than the TSast. The Dominion could attract many wealthy ■ families if such a course were adopt**!. In the western states of California land is such a fabulous price that people cannot buy it. In New Zealand there were unlimited opportunities for men . who were willing to,work. Americans, he said, were turning their, attention more and more to Australia. When he .1 got back to America he would advise lending Australia all the money needed. » To-day that country was borrowing , heavily in order to meet previous debts. If America went, on lending to the i extent she should then in time that . country would have a very strong financial and other footing in Australia. Colonel Bailey is Australian bred, his « father having been a railway contractor in Victoria. He has just visited his native country after an absence of 20 yean, mostly spent in the United States. His return to the land of his birth was inspired mainly by a desire to familiarise himself with developments in Australia and New Zealand in order that he may continue his policy of making Australia and New Zealand arid their people and conditions better known in America. ■'■ *Ay An Adveataxoos Careen w Colonel Bailey has had an adventur- . oua career. Born, in Victoria, he rose from the position of office boy to the positions of buyer and salesman in the ironmongery business of Briscoe and Company in Sydney. Hen was of an ambitious spirit, and, having studied medicine as a hobby, he decided to enter upon a professional career, and graduated 25 years ago. The desire to see the world gripped himkand he departed to America Intending to return within six months but the hustle and hurry of American life fascinated him, and he has been away from Australia without intermission ever since. His stay in America excited his craving for adventure, and shortly after reaching California he joined au expedition of five to the remote parts of Mexico. He then devoted his attention to, journalism, and became active in Press correspondent work with leading U.S.A. journals; he also continued his study of medicine' and surgery from the American* standpoints. With the outbreak of ' war in 1914 he organised the British-American League, whose activities spread throughout the country, and did a great deal towards directing thought to the necessity of America standing to the cause of the Allies. He is a member of the

Army and Navy Veterans of Canada and also of the American Legion of U.S.A. He has been in every State of the Union, has crossed America four times, travelled throughout Canada, and done three expeditions into the wilda of Mexico. He was elected an active member of the Explorers' Club of New York, president of* the Adventurers' Club of Long Beach, an institution "to gather together men who have left the beaten path and'made for adventure." Colonel Bailey is aho a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia. He leaves for Vancouver by the Aorangi tomorrow.