TRIPS FOR TOURISTS
Permission To Lower Fares By '.L’elegrapli—Press Association. Auckland, May 19. A decision Io permit road motor companies and taxi-car companies to carry out at: “cut; rates” special tours that might be approved from time to time by tlie proper licensing authority was made tliis morning by the central licensing authority, when J. W. Clarke, Auckhiml manager of the Government Tourist Bureau, asked that companies engaged to carry cruise-ship passengers be exempted from tlie standard fares fixed by regulation. These tourists, he said, did not belong to tlie luxury class. The tours were of short duration and covered long distances, and were not competing with private tours. Reduced fares were desirable for officially-organised trips.
Representatives of all the motor companies concerned supported the request. Six cruise-ships are to visit New Zealand during the coming summer. The first will be the Orion, about October 28, with 1000 tourists. Then will follow nt monthly intervals the Strathnaver, Orford, Narkunda, Oronsay, and a sixth steamer in March.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 199, 20 May 1936, Page 8
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