TOURISTS FROM AUSTRALIA

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28130, 20 November 1956, Page 20

TOURISTS FROM AUSTRALIA

Influx Arriving In New Zealand TRAVEL CONCESSIONS BY AIRLINES On the return flights from Australia of planes which are taking New Zealanders to the Olympic Games, many tourists are arriving in the Dominion. Among them will be between 200 and 300 people who

will spend 14, 21 or 28 days touring New Zealand in 12 parties organised by a tourist agency. Sixteen members or the first ot these tour parties arrived at Harewood from Sydney by a SuperConstellation at 6 a.m. yesterday. Mort tourists were due to arrive by DC-6 at midnight last night to join this party and members of still another party are expected at 6 a.m. today. Altogether four tour parties arranged by this organisation will arrive in Christchurch and another eight will arrive at Whenuapai.

Between December 3 and December 14, nine groups from these parties will leave Harewood on their way back to Australia. Mr William •H. Craike, a special representative of' the agency, said in Christchurch yesterday that the series of tours had been arranged in conjunction with the cheap fares offered to Australian travellers by Tasman Empire Airways. Ltd., on their flights’ between November 8 and December 20.

The 5000 New Zealanders going to the Games (3000 by air and 2000 by sea) made up the largest contingent of visitors from any one country and at a conservative estimate of what their stay in Australia would cost, it was reasonable to assume that £750.000 would be going out of the country. In these days of shortages of overseas funds, it was useful to recover even a part of that money through travellers coming into New Zealand from Australia, he said.