INFORMATION FOR AMERICANS.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 127, 25 November 1929, Page 12

INFORMATION FOR AMERICANS.

American tourists are. generally thirst for information of places visited. They will be well supplied when they arrive at Auckland next-Sunday in the new Matson liner Malolo. Dr. E. P. Neale, secretary of Auckland Chamber o£ Commerce, has prepared a special number of the chamber's' journal for distribution on the Halolo. . She is on a great Pacific cruise of 24,000 miles, taking in Japan and China, Siam, and the British Malaya, Netherlands, Indies, Philippine^ Australia, and New Zealand, Samoa, and Hawaiian Islands, and she carries a full complement of American passengers, chiefly business men and women and educationists. Arriving in Auckland on Sunday, the tourists will sail on Wednesday, but time will be allowed for visiting Rotorua and Waitomo and seeing something of intervening country. Dr. Neale deals in the journal with "Economic New Zealand" (fully illustrated); the functions of the Empire Marketing Board are outlined. Advantages of Auckland City as a business centre and manufacturing area; as a holi: day resort; as a farming locality; and as a place in which to dwell in. Incidentally, American visitors are informed that Auckland is free from "the unpleasant high winds which are at times experienced at least in Wellington and in Christchurch," and "Auckland is outside the earthquake area of the Dominion." The trade of Western Samoa; big building progress; - calendar reform and inter-In> perial -trade (by the British Trade Commissioner, Mr: L. A. Paish), are among .the principal articles ja this special issue.