OUTBACK AUSTRALIA

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 60, 8 September 1938, Page 17

OUTBACK AUSTRALIA

ITINERARY FOR TOURISTS

STATION OWNERS CO-OPERATE

(From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, September 1.

Tours that will enable visitors to Australia to see outback New South Wales are being organised by the New South Wales and New Zealand Govr ernment Tourist Bureaux. Co-opera-tion of station-owners 'has been obtained, and on one property a promise had been made to arrange kangaroo and wild-pig hunts if desired.

A party of tourist, authorities, repre» senting Australia and; New Zealand, completed a tour of nearly 3000 miles by car, and as a result an itinerary will be mapped out that will take the tourist to places that were never included in travel programmes before. The party which did the tour^ncluded Mr. W. J. Casey, New South Wales Tourist Bureau; Mr. R. Inglis, New Zealand Government Tourist Bureau; Mr. L. J. Wright, manager in Sydney of the Victorian Government Tourist Bureau; Mr. W. Grundy, of the Union Steam Ship Company; Mr. G. H.. Haliday, of the travel department, of the1 Bank of New South Wales; and Mr..\T. R. Pocock, manager of the Pioneer, Tourist Company. <

Mr. H. Lamble, director of the State Tourist Department, said that it was hoped -that a party of tourists from New Zealand would arrive towards the end of September and make the inland trip by car. "We are hoping that this first party will be the forerunner of many others," he added. "This is a new venture. . It "• will enable the tourist to leave the cities and see something of > Broken Hill, of Lightning Ridge,, of sheep-station life, and of outback life generally." ; . "

Dr.. Thomas R. C. Cumming, M.B. (N.Z.), M.R.C.P. (Lpndon), formerly of Otago. and now assistant medical officer, Maudsley .Hospital, London, has been awarded a • Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship oii the recommendation of the Medical Research Council, in the' special field of psychiatry, neurology, and related subjects.