TOURISTS ARRIVE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 122, 16 February 1935, Page 17

TOURISTS ARRIVE

Passengers From England By the Rangitiki Looking very smart in a navy and white ensemble, Lady Denison was one of a number of well-known women who arrived at Wellington from London by the Rangitiki yesterday morning. Lady Denison has been many times in New Zealand, and was here last May. She and her husband, Sir Hugh Denison, M.8.E., intend spending six weeks touring in both the North and South Islands before leaving for their home, which is at Sydney. Returning to Australia. Finding the cost of living in England and paying income tax to Australia too prohibitive, Lady Muriel F. Lawford is returning to her native land, and was in Wellington yesterday for a short time after arriving by the Rangitiki from England. “I don’t think I shall live in England because of having to pay the double income tax, and to live in New Zealand would be just as bad,” she said. And so she was going to Australia until taxation dropped, although things were in a bad state there even yet. The whole thing was ridiculous, she thought. Lady Lawford later left for Australia by the Wanganella. Her First Visit. Lady Leicester was walking the deck with her wide-eyed and wondering small daughter, who, she said, loved travelling but was very glad that they had reached land once more. Lady Leicester is a charming Swiss woman, who is paying her first visit to this country with Sir Peter Leicester. “We shall not be here very long,” she said, “as we are returning to England by this ship, but we want to see as much of the country as we possibly can. We shall be touring by car, and I am anxious to see your wonderful Rotorua.” “Yes, the weather is very disappointing. I expected Wellington to be in bright sunshine this morning—we have heard that is nearly always so.” “But what did you think of the harbour by night?” she was asked. “Is that one of your sights?” Lady Leicester inquired with a twinkle. “Well, yes, it certainly was very beautiful.” Globe-Trotter Arrives. “I have been everywhere in the world except to Australia and New Zealand,” Mrs. Hillier-Holt, another English visitor,'told a “Dominion” representative. “And I am looking forward to my visit here immensely. I have a long lost cousin in this country who has come to meet me.”

Mrs. Hillier-Holt is very fond of golf and hopes to play on some of our courses.

“Yes, I shall have three days in Rotorua, and will probably play there,” she said.

• She will be in New Zealand only three weeks, leaving for Australia by the Orontes, “So I shan’t have time to go to the South Island, but will spend all my time motoring in ’ the north.” Mrs. Hillier-Holt was amazed that we still talked of depression, when every home-going ship was filled’with travellers —surely a sign of returning prosperity. The visitor also remarked that many English people, instead of going to the south of France for the winter months, were now going further afield. Jamaica, owing to the climate being warmer than the Riviera, was now a popular holiday resort. Some of the Rangitiki’s passengers had disembarked there.