PACIFIC ISLANDS
DEVELOPMENT AS WORLD PLAYGROUND (PRESS I9SOmTION VBLfc'VRAM J AUCKLAND, August 29. "There Is a possibility in I Pacific Island development as a world playground," remarkeci Rear-Admiral F. Burges Watson in an address to the j Travel Club to-day. He said it appeared to him that a new trade —pleasure or holiday cruising—was likely to spread to Pacific waters. Proper development would make such lovely island as Rarotonga and Samoa pleasant winter resorts, he continued. Any move to provide hotel accommodation and other facilities must be done with foresight and careful study of the comfort of passengers, as nothing annoyed them more than vexatious restrictions of their liberty. It struck him that the recent cruise bv the Marama was very short. Perhaps arrangements could be made for more or longer cruises, or for passneers to break journey at some desired island, spend the winter there, and then return by another cruise ship.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21256, 30 August 1934, Page 17
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