Holiday Cut Short By Limit On Funds

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31499, 13 October 1967, Page 26

Holiday Cut Short By Limit On Funds

(New Zealand Press Association)

AUCKLAND, October 12.

New Zealand tourists were known as the poorest in the world, said Mr T. M. Wilson, a Wellington businessman, who returned today six months earlier than he had planned.

Mr Wilson and his wife arrived in the Oronsay today after completing only 18 months of a two-year world tour on his retirement.

“My wife and I were forced to work in London because we were not able to get enough money to live on under our Government’s restrictions,” he said. “We had enough funds here in New Zealand but were unable to take them out of the country." He had to cancel a visit to the United States and had to pay $6OO to bring his car into New Zealand because he has not had it 20 months. He said he was annoyed about the small traveller's allowance—sl2 a day each when he and his wife left at the beginning of 1966—because it took no account of the high cost of living overseas. In London it was impossible

to get a reasonable flat for less than $l6 a week. He had tried to get money sent from his New Zealand bank, but had been refused permission If he and his wife wanted to travel again in the future, it would be three years before he was allowed to take out a traveller’s full quota of funds, he said.