Tourists in New Zealand
Sir, —Kathleen Hancock’s article on Saturday took me back 16 years to our first arrival in New Zealand. I think she is unduly severe on her countrymen, though we agree with her strictures on the climate. We arrived in Wellington on a bitterly cold December day, but from the start found a friendly greeting from New Zealanders, and received many proofs of individual kindness. Our worst trial was the arbitrary rules governing meal hours, and the way we were corralled in hotel dining-robms and made to share tables with total strangers. This was especially trying at breakfast. Nobody wants to make polite conversation, even with their nearest and dearest, at 8 a.m., and we wondered why hotels should be run for the apparent convenience of trade unions. Watching well-heeled shipboard acquaintances humping their own luggage at Wellington evoked the same reflection. But we enjoyed a four-month tour sufficiently to decide to return here, and are now old residents.—Yours, etc., I.S.T. November 6, 1967.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31520, 7 November 1967, Page 16
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