OUR SCENIC RESORTS.'

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13111, 9 May 1908, Page 10

OUR SCENIC RESORTS.'

1 VISIT FROM THE MELBOURNE AGENT. After n visit to the scenic resorte of the- South, Mr 11. J. Mansou. .\srent in Melbourne for the New Zealand Government "Dopa.rt-iueut o c Tourist aisd Health Resorts, arrived in Christohurch lost e-vening. During a brief chat with a ."Press 1, reporter. Mr Mfliison expressed himself us hiplily delighted with tho scenery in that part of the Dominion, and said there would doubtless bo a large influx of visitors from Victoria next season Mr Mansou was appointed the Xew Zealand represent a tire in Victoria sc.mc two yivirs ago, and is very hopeful of the pnospeeU of the tourist traffic between that .State-1 and Now Zealand. Xew Zealand, ho said, was the first to open up aiv agency in Victoria, and tho Australian States wero not eJow to follow her example, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, and Western Australia now having offices in clo.se proximity to that of Now Zealand. The- lack of knowk:!ge in regard to this Dominion, stated Mr Manson, wns astonishing;, nirst j>rop.le seeming to imagine that n holiday of somo cix or oip;ht weeks wn.s nocpssary for a visit to these parts .Tnd tliat the Trip would cast something like- £50 or £60. Mr Manson is convinced, that ir i:> possible it> pay a visit to the «*?ohthorn scenic resorts and return to Melbourne in tho pen'od of threo weeks, ct an expend of about £20. Mr Manson will leave for Hannw to-day, after which he departs for the North, returning to Australia m four "weeks' timo.