THE TOURIST TRAFFIC.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 77, 24 December 1907, Page 7

THE TOURIST TRAFFIC.

;■' • A. BmSK.;SEASbN: ,'■.-'■ ■ ; Every inter-cp)onial.</'and .over-sea boaft arriving in Now*Zealand'is'bringing tourists, This is-thc tonrist.season, and we havebeen successful in .attracting; a'-larßo number to ',' our shores this year. Tho influx from,Aus. '/ tralifv-Jias already;.been; remarkabld/ and' let- ' '/ ters, which tho Superintendent of the Tourist' ~~-' Department (jMr.'Donhej has received during ■itlio. past week. or. two, indicate 'that tho . stream ia going Vto'adily to coiitimio for a, :• while. .Tho Taluno, arrived yester-- , • : . day fron , ! Sydney, was utilised by the Union Steam Ship Company at' -Sydney to accom-■ .■').', modato an overplus of passuiigcrs from the usual boat. ' . ' '. " . •■■-■.

■: Tho tourist ns , a rule takes bis timeabquf , )ji:s" plonstiro, but, from information in widt-circulation,'-pretty- wol! knows where ho in* , :' thuds going beforo complnting liis holidaj and finally Icayinf the Dominion. This yeai. the Sounds trip is in creator favour' than ■ eye) , , 'especially' with Australians,' and. the\! cold-lakes, • states .-Mr." Donno, aro to receive > thtsii;,full, quota- '.vTho call-of Uotorua, ho\vcvjM', has ,isaiu;;KOi)C'out over -the waters, ami already ihoplaco;is full. Its "Mayor, Jlf. Doniio, administers its affairs from afar,' but points witb'pride to its increasing, popn- . larity and faiiiov'".'Tho , ' largo 'sums of money 1 ■ , yntwl thisyimr by (lovernnicnt to improvo ■[ ; . its-,baths,.-sanitary .and -water-schemes, and o.fFect other itnprovomonts, , should Uo • .yet -. ; innire.j iii,, this; n;spoct. ■ Tliero., is good prcH vision in! "Hotofiia;- to eopd-,ivith any inrush; tho'liol-els"number four ;(ilicludiiic the. ( huge Or'aiid Hotel)',' aiitl thq'Hoarding-lKiuses , 4,4..' ' It is expectwl a cohsiclcrablo number V'o' people in tho South will take advantage o: tho overland route via the Stain Tnmk'thij : year. . ■ ,:■:..'-. ;.■■■•■.■ • ■ , .-■'.'.' ■-..■'. •\ paras', association'.} /I: ■ J ' "-\ ihveroa-gili, Dccomber 23.. . ■', i A great , number-of tourists camo to New ' Zealaml by tho Mnraind, which arrived at thc_liluif--to-day,-;-slany-went-Ncrth.- Among Che passengers was. a German journalist, Horr Giistav Major, commissioned to.write., a_ series of artiulcs on the Dominion for the piipcr " Frankfurter Zoitung." ;. . -. i Messrs.' liconard and ,Co., land anil estate ifeents;-.,-l,;;FeliUior6ton ".Street, inako: itl a'fea-.- , tur'o' of their business to find comfortable'; dwellings on small areas of Innd suitable for poultry farming :m<l> fruit-growing.' They at' present;hayo «. large list o(.such lirojierties in| Wclliiifjtoii, Manawatii, Wairarapn, Nulsonv and other districts. Reference lo a property of tho. kind abovc-incmtioncd will bo ■' found ill our advertising cohuuns. !

■ Special "attractions are 'being 1 prepared at ",'■ Day's, r #ay for;,tlie holidays. The Forry :Com' r i pany lias engaged Professor Bwkfonl. the . ' ventriloquist,-with his;groat Punch and: Judy, show, and there will bo a full band in at-: tpndancc. ITlio'Forry. steamers will ran special, excursions all day. Full particulars appear in aio'tbW 1 column. '.' , : ..:-.. : : - ■> 'At i*.sitting of tho Mount Ccolc Tolico Court yesterday, ..before Mr. C. ; W. Bcnbow, J. P., Henry Qroonfiold'was convicted and finod 55., in default twenty-four hours' imprisonmout, for insobriety, and four first offenders wero also.convicted and fined ss. One first ofTcndor ': was-'.oonvictod and discharged. ' ■; Englishmen aro practical pooplo, and will rievor -oh'tor into a great constitutional unless thc-y aro apurrod on by somo practical grioranco. _ They porcoive tb'at the House \ of Lords in its actual working is.» vory^'satisfactory Second Chambor, ' hoitlior too weak- to curb noisy minorities which bappoa to haro mado tonns with, the GovJemmenfc'of tho-day, norso strong as to b«: able to-tesisfc tho will of tho pooplo whea ' it"ias-toenrjinmißtakßbly exprossod.— -x:-' ■ .-. . : ■ *fiaiU_..,/