"BETTER THAN WOOL"

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 80, 5 April 1938, Page 4

"BETTER THAN WOOL"

A vision of luxury liners disembarking 5000 tourists at Milford Sound in seasons'following the opening of the Homer tunnel and Eglinton Valley route, and of those tourists spending in the aggregate a quarter of a million pounds each season in Southland, was outlined by Mr. H. J.. Farrant, when speaking of the scenic possibilities of Southland at the meeting.of the committee set up to organise a Southland court at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in Wellington.? "During the present season five'luxury liners have arrived at Auckland,' carrying tourists ; who have .much... money to spend: They have 'spent it;; in the North Island, and vje-embarked: at Wellington," stated Mr. Farrant.; "By 1942 the Homer tunnel will, be through, by which timer we will be ready to take luxury liners into Milford Sound where the passengers will disembark, travel through, the Eglinton Valley to Lake Te Anau, then on to Queenstown,; across to Monowai, then through the Eastern districts to re-embark at' Bluff, after a couple of 'days in Invercargill. If we get,each season 5000 tourists, who will spend an average, of £50 each, that willmean a quarter of a million pounds to Southland. "These people are loaded with money and only want a means of getting rid of it. The traffic is worth catering for. It is better than wool.