Japanese staff
Sir, — Mrs Seay claims to know more than the New Zealand Tourist Department’s manager in Tokyo. It is unfortunate that she does not speak any Japanese because her information is all obtained from those who are out to protect their own jobs. As a nonJapanese speaker, she has no objective method of evaluating New Zealand speakers of Japanese. We do not claim that all New Zealand students are ready to act as tour guides, any more than a motor apprentice is ready to assemble a Rolls-Royce. We do claim, however, that they are ready to be employed and trained to become tour guides and the like, given the opportunity which is rightly theirs. When are Mrs Seay and others going to accept their obligation in this field, given that Japanese tourists now want to meet New Zealand and its people? — Yours, ALASTaIR McLAUCHLAN. May 2, 1984.
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