INTENSE AIR TRAVEL

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29068, 3 December 1959, Page 22

INTENSE AIR TRAVEL

“Need For Rests At Sea’’

“High pressure air travel in fast planes” is causing so much tension in the physical make-up of businessmen who travel a lot that itineraries are “having to be broken up with sea voyages.”

This is the view of the American luxury line Matson’s vicepresident, Mr T. Eliot, who arrived in Christchurch by air. “I try to practise what I preach,” he said. “In this hectic day and age with these wonderful jet and turboprop planes the businessman’s life has become very intense. "The only answer is sea and air travel combined. They just have to do it. “If you travel by air solely you do not know whether it is breakfast time or lunch or what, or today or tomorrow. This pressure has become so great it is having to be broken up with rest and there is no better rest than a sea voyage,” he said. Last Visit Mr Eliot, who is accompanied by his wife, last visited New Zealand in 1955 as a delegate to the Pacific Area Travel Association conference at the Chateau Tongariro. Yesterday he flew to Wellington for a luncheon with the association’s president (Sir Leonard Isitt) arid a group working on arrangements for the association’s 1960 conference in Christchurch. Then he will join the liner Mariposa to return to the United States.

Mr Eliot has been visiting the Orient on one of his line’s cruise Ships.'' “There is no question whatever. There seems to be an economic boom right round the circuit and although I cannot feeak of New Zealand after having been only three hours here it will be surprising if it is not in the boom too. We know already that 1959 is going to be a very, very successful and banner year for our services both to Australia and New Zealand,” he said.