A Tourist Office

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31583, 22 January 1968, Page 10

A Tourist Office

Sir, —With reference to the letter appearing in this morning’s edition of “The Press” and titled “A Tourist Office” 1 have to advise that a reply was posted on January 12 last. Your referral reached my desk on that date and I immediately dictated a reply which was signed and, according to our postage book, posted that same day. A copy of this reply is enclosed—in fact our file copy. The reply has either been mislaid in the mail or perhaps in your commercial offices as I note that my office has used a different box number from normal.—Yours, etc., E. G. BECKETT, Sales Manager.

[ Mr Beckett’s reply of January 12 is as follows: “Mount Cook Airlines does not maintain an office in The Terrace at Timaru. The public office for Mount Cook Airlines, Mount Cook Coachlines and the activities of the company are at 295 Stafford Street. On The Terrace are the freight yards for Mount Cook Coachlines, Mount Cook Airlines and N.A.C., plus our garaging and maintenance facilities. A wholly - owned subsidiary, Mount Cook Air Services, Ltd, which operates our ski plans at Mount Cook has an office there for administration purposes, but certainly not for selling to the public. However, this office and the other areas are at present under consideration for modernisation and this move has only become practical since the widening of The Terrace.”]