THE TOURIST SEASON.
LARGE INFLUX EXPECTED , 'JWM . x austrawav ;:?;•■';'..■ ,: THE DOMINION'S/POPULARITY'; "Inquiries concerning, travelling, in.'.New Zealand have been most marked," writes' the New Zealand Government Agent in Sydnoy to Mr. T. E. Donne, general manager of the Tourist Department, " and' I have .'. been c:illed upon to sketch out numerous..tours. One gentleman has .fifteen in-his party who arc contemplating a tour of the Dominion early in January. There are also a number of smaller groups leaving and about to travel." / The prospects for a good tourist season were most promising, tho writer continued, and from now on- largo , numbers of people ffom the Commonwealth would proceed to tho Dominion to speu'd""tbel'i''"siinmier'liolidaya. Passengers were freely booking for tho "Waikare Sounds trip. A number intended walking overland to- Glado House, proceeding thence by train to the Cold Lakes and Dunedin. , ; ,;" 4 ; During five days in the Inst week in November 363 people "called ,a£;'the New Zealand Tourist Offico in Sydney: . '.' „> '
Mr. Donno to-day said, that ho (Expected a very busy season. Visitors from Homo .were arriving l>y every boat. Tlic Tourist officers are all working at high prcssiirb just now in consequence. : '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 65, 10 December 1907, Page 5
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189THE TOURIST SEASON. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 65, 10 December 1907, Page 5
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