NEW ZEALAND

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 113, 9 November 1933, Page 9

NEW ZEALAND

"GRkAT TOURIST COUNTRY AMERrCAM JO^RNALisrS^ Z VIEW"' : %Th& undoubted- charm .of New Zealand strikes one forcibly after asojourn in the East with its teeming population and general unrest^" stat.ed ilr..Mare T. Greene,'3n American journalist,, who- returned'from a visit to, Japan and China recently. "I carried awajr with me the -happiest recollections of the hospitality met with during my former stay in this Dominion, and it is good to be back amongst you again. You can imagine how good a country with 'attractions like Mount Cook appears after the sweltering heat of tho China seas, and I would have given Something at times to have been able to transport myself on a magic carpet back to the Hermitage occasionally. I was particularly incensed while in Tahiti recently to hear of Mr. Zane Grey's remarks, published in one'of the Los Angeles papers, in which he mentioned something about the New Zealander 's unfriendly attitude towards Americans in general. I feel that this is quite unwarranted, and I intend taking the matter up 'in the American Press on my return. Personally, I have met nothing but courtesy and • tforisrderation from all with whom I have ftome in contact, and to my mind this is one of the greatest pleasures a visit to tho Dominion affords. "Your motor services and hotel accommodation are as good as one would find in any part of the world, the general comfort and standard of the cars being excellent. I have travelled all over the country here, and. so speak from experience. It .is unfortunate that, just as New Zealand was becoming" more widely known throughout the United States that world- conditions should have so adversely affected the general trend of tourist traffic to the Pacific, but this is only, a passing phase which will bo remedied in the near future. New Zealand will then come into her own as one of the leading tourist centres of the world."