A VISITOR FROM ENGLAND.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20730, 15 December 1932, Page 9

A VISITOR FROM ENGLAND.

TOURIST PLEASED WITH NEW ZEALAND. "VERY MUCH AT HOME." A visitor staying in Christchurch at present is Sir Berkeley Sheffield, -who is the guest of Mr and Mrs George Gould, "Avonbank." »sir Berkeley is making a tour of New Zealand, fishing and visiting the beauty spots of the Dominion, having previously toured Australia. In his opinion New Zealand has everything to offer the tourist in the way of sport and scenery. He has recently been fishing at Lake Taupo, and, though he arrived there a little too early in the season, he had excellent sport. Before he leaves New Zealand in January he hopes to visit the Southern Lakes for a week or two. He told a representative of Thb Press yesterday that he found nothing to complain of in the way in which tourists were catered for in New' Zealand. "I have found everything Yencomfortable," he said, "and one feels so much .it home that it is a delightful plaeo for visitors from England. Yesterday I was driven to the top of the Cashmere Hills, and the view from there reminded me strongly of parts of Scotland and North England." Sir Berkeley Sheffield, who owns large areas of land in Eflgland, expressed the opinion that the Canterbury Plains could be brought into very much more intensive cultivation than at present. He thought that smaller holdings, though they would mean harder work, would increase the productivity of the land considerably. In his own district, near Nottingham, where unemployment was exceedingly bad owing to the closing down, of many of the iron and steel works there, the allotment system was a great help to men out of work. On the allotments they grew their own vegetables, which in many cases were their chief source of food supply. Sir Berkeley will be in Christchurch. until the end of the week, when he will visit Otago and Southland. He will leave for England about January 24th.