SUCCESS OF TOURIST SEASON
A MARKED INCREASE IN \ J M \ BOOKINGS. . , ■ ' ; ' M [THE PBBSS Social Service. 1 iAUCKLAND, May 7. "The tourist season just past jaaft j been easily the best we have enced," said Mr J. W. Clarke, s- i; , I S| ; trict manager of the Tourist Depart. :M ' ment. "There has been a marked '[l j increase in bookings of all kinds, j an'oi business has been well spread ~sl through the season. There are also encouraging signs of a heaftby volume of winter traffic, a feature that we are particularly anxious-to '||l develop." , ' 1 Much of the improvement noted, iff said Mr Clarke, he would attribute > ■-'||l to the presence in London qt a keen, J| | well-trained member of the depart- ||§ ment. This agent was. able to svp- i |§| ply prospective tourists with all 'Jf| possible information as • to itioier- k|H| aries, accommodation,. and, , above ijl all, of costs. He had also J)ten II | actively engaged in making t |g| nexions with existing'travel' agexv- 11 cies in the Old .Country," assisting ■>. || them in completing arrangements ||J| with their own clients. Mr Clarke added* that cruise ships Si had been responsible for a great » volume of traffic this season.' ' ■ jfBB
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21467, 8 May 1935, Page 10
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