N.Z.'S ATTRACTIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 21, 26 January 1939, Page 14

N.Z.'S ATTRACTIONS.

TOURIST ADVERTISING. CLAIM 9f s of SOUTH, ISLAND. (■f 1 Tslsfrspti—PrMs Association.) , GREYMOUTH, Wednesday. UlY"*? 1 - '.T-, un,fl « tlon of national tourist • advertising was emphasied by " at an executive meetinjriUK the South Island Travel Association at Greymouth to-day. The chairman, Mr. A. H. Allen, Mayor of Dunedln. said the development of V>uriat advertising In the South Island haft bee# largely due to the Individual effort M the. provinces, but anything done tot the benefit of the South Island benefited the Dominion as a whole. The association represented every district in the South Island and by unification would be able to drive home to the people in other parts of New Zealand Its beauties and limi? ?2"; wen b,g enou * h admit that there were great attracttl?" Ji 1 *** Zealand, but believed they had In the South Island in concentrated form; Iter more natural beauty than could be found in any other part of the world. The aasoeb ation was not fn existence for the purpose of decrying the North Island. .. Mr _ w ; mm (Dunedln) criticised the Tourist Department In Auckland au *w » / '"*• *° •d,*i»e tourists of South Island attractions, and said that if the association was to aueceed H must undermine that sort of thing or 11 altogether. Mr. Allen's aug. th T be taken up adopted!** v -. Dipnrtment wai to urge the OoverhmhjLi - erec f "dequate moorings at Milford Sound, where It was stated large Ocean liners on cruises were un- \ bl " o*«ng tothe possibility 1 1 ta • ■«<d«n wind arising. The possibility of cruise liners from Australia including South Island ports was envisagedJn a report by the dirtctor, Mr. J. J. W. fbllard, who ihtid one line was interested in giving passengers an opportunity of travelling to the South Island. The competition of the new motor road between Otago and West land wbufd facilitate the project, but in tlm meantime it was likely that HVfeu wo,,M , <,,M " nb * rk passengerg at, I'Cton * them it