"GET GOOD ROADS”

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 94, 15 January 1926, Page 4

"GET GOOD ROADS”

1 . I THEN ADVERTISE , ADVICE OF AMERICAN VISITOR c Palmerston North, January 14. "New Zealand wants good roads, and then some good advertising. Then it will attract tourists from all parts of the World, Americans in particular, as they ate great' motorists,” said Mr. D. F, Wilber, former United States ConsluGeiiCral to New Zealand, who is at present on a holiday tour of the Dominion.

jfr. Wilber, accompanied by his friend, Mt. W. S. Wipple, arrived in New Zealand in October last, and the following month visited the Manawatu ShoW, beitig particularly interested in Friesian cattle, for which he has presented the magnificent Wilber Memorial Cup. After travelling to Christchurch to see the Royal Show, Mr. Wilber went to Rotorua, where he had the satisfaction of catching some exceptionally fine trout, tlfc heaviest of which weighed 91b. After touring in Wanganui, Mr. Wilber spent some time trout fishing at Dake Taupo, and had a most enjoyable time, The trout, he said, are much larger in New Zealand than in the United. States, and he secured a catch weighing 5061 b., the heaviest fish being 131 b. Mf. Wilber also took in the Dunedin Exhibition, and said that it exceeded his expectations, being one of the best arranged organisations of its kind that e> he had seen, outside of the thicklypopulated centres of Europe and America. "I have also been to Mount Cook,” said the former Consul-General, “and it is. just another Switzerland. I have always said I loved New Z.ealand, and the more I see of it, the more impressed I. am at its wonders and magnificent Scenery. Mv friend, Mr., Wipple, who hails from New York, would not belieVC What I told him when I returned home after my first visit to the Dominion, but he is now so delighted with wli&t he has seen that he is writing articles to his home papers about this wonderful country.” Mr. Wilber added that he had made many friends in the Manawatu, and had taken the opportunity of again dropping off the train to see them for a few days. He will now go north on another fishing trip, and will join the Aorangi early next month for Sydney, and Will return to the United States a few weeks later.