DELIGHTED BY7 TOUR

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 207, 29 May 1936, Page 13

DELIGHTED BY 7 TOUR

American Author and Artist Wife ORGANISATION ADMIRED "I reckon your New Zealand scenery beats anything I’ve ever seen, with its contrast of snow peaks and beautiful farmlands,” said Mr. Webb Waldron, American author and travel-article writer, who with his artist wife is making a ten-day tour of the Dominion. In that short space of time they will have been to Rotorua, Wairakei, the Chateau Tongariro and the South Island. They stated that they were delighted with their tour. “We just paid a flying visit to the south,” said Air. Waldron. He meant it literally as well as figuratively, because he and his wife left Wellington by air liner on Wednesday morning for Dunedin, and arrived back yesterday. Both expressed keen appreciation of the air services, which they said were wonderful considering the short time they had been operating, and of the South Island scenery. "Organisation seems to be your speciality in New Zealand,” said Mrs. Waldron. “I cannot speak too highly of the way the Government Tourist Bureau organised our tour, so thaf everything ran smoothly throughout. We could never otherwise have crammed so much into so short a time. I understand your educational and health organisations are equally marvellous. Yes, organisation is what strikes the visitor to New Zealand.” Air. Waldron said he was a regular contributor to several leading American magazines, including “Collier’s Magazine,” of which lie was formally managing-editor, "Scribner’s,” “The American Alagazine” and the “Readers’ Digest.” He has written a number of novels, including “Blue Glamour,” a story about a trip which he and his wife made on a tramp steamer round the Mediterranean and North Africa; “We Explore the Great Lakes,” an account of a similar voyage on the inland seas of North America; and “Fortunate Isle,” published in London last year. Mrs. Waldron has illustrated several of his works, Mr. and Airs. Waldron will leave Auckland by the Monterey to-morrow for Hawaii, where they intend collecting material for a book on those islands.