FARES' TOO HIGH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 127, 31 May 1937, Page 17

FARES' TOO HIGH.

SOUTH ISLAND TRAVELLING. WOMAN LAYS COMPLAINT. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The statement that tourists would not come to the South Island because the fares on service cars were too high was made by Mrs. Eva M. Seward, an English visitor to Christchurch, -who has been travelling in New Zealand for five months. Much has been said about the neglect of the South Island by the tourist agencies, she said, but a comparison of the expenses showed the difference between North and South Island trips. She travelled 700 miles by rail from Opua, in the North of Auckland, to Wellington, breaking her journey at several stages, for £2 11/, while the cost of her motor fare from Nelson to Reef ton, just 100 miles, was £2. She said that it was not the expense that rankled, but the principle of the thing. Apart from the question of fares, said Mrs. Seward, she was enjoying her tour of New Zealand. Besides her interest in the Townswomen's Guild, Mrs. Seward is an active member of the Sunlight League, Victoria League, New Education Fellowship, Ealing Women's Citizens' Association, Committee for Occupational Training of Physically Handicapped, Associated Country Women of the World, Electrical Association for Women, and the Dickens Fellowship, of which 6he was a founder. Whichever country Mrs. Seward visits, and she has spent the last two years travelling in South Africa and Australia, she studies thoroughly some feature of its social system. She is particularly interested in the work done by the Plunket Society in New Zealand, and during her six weeks in Dunedin saw all she could of the workings of this society,