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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22004, 30 January 1937, Page 12

Advice has been received by the Government Tourist Department from Mr M. O’Brien, New Zealand Commissioner at the Empire Exhibition, Johannesburg, that right up to the closing of the exhibition there were many enquiries about the curative possibilities of the Rotorua spa. The special literature dealing with the thermal regions prepared by the Government Publicity Office, and distributed at the exhibition, was in keen demand, and the commissioner says that numbers of people approached him asking for particulars, having decided to visit New Zealand at the first favourable opportunity.

To give publicity to the development of culture in the small towns of New Zealand, Messrs O. N. Gillespie (Wellington) and Leslie Hinge (railways publicity official photographer) are touring south Taranaki. They are obtaining material and photographs of Patea, Hawera, Eltham, and Stratford, and possibly Manaia and Kaponga, as Mr Gillespie believes that the Dominion's small towns are the most advanced in the world. He has selected the south Taranaki district as the best example of his contentions.

“Would not a policeman’s whistle be much, more effective than a torch for stopping a passing car at night time?’’ asked Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, when Sub-Inspector J. Dempsey said that a defendant had not stopped when an electric torch had been waved. Mr Luxford said that he had sr.-eral times heard complaints by motorists that they had not seen torches said to have been waved at them, and he himself had seen the same trouble occur when he had been following cars, the drivers of which had been signalled by torch. The drivers were frequently nearly opposite a constable when such a signal was made, and naturally, with their attention concentrated on the road ahead, they did not see the light. Sub-Inspector Dempsey replied that drivers certainly often did have difficulty in seeing a light flashed at them from the side. If in any case, however, it did appear that a man had wilfully driven on in defiance of a signal to stop, the proper course would be to charge ffim with the offence.

A quantity of New Zealand publicity matter prepared by the Government studios at Miramar, Wellington, after being exhibited in the Parliament Buildings at Wellington some months ago, was sent to London to be used there for advertising the Dominion. Mr R. W. Fenton, manager of the Miramar studios, has received a cable message from the High Commissioner saying that the displays are of a better standard than is procurable in England. In future it is probable that similar works usually ordered in England will be produced at Miramar instead.