TOURIST DIVIDEND

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 44, 21 August 1939, Page 8

TOURIST DIVIDEND

VISITORS TO AUSTRALIA

£2,000,000 SPENT IN YEAR

(From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, August 12. Visitors from overseas numbering 33,480 spent about £2,000,000 in Aus- j tralia during the year ended May 31, j according to the annual report of the Australian National Travel Association. The number of overseas visitors was [ 18.2 per cent, greater than in 1931. I "Based on the estimate of the Com- ! monwealth Statistician, visitors spent j about £2,000,000 in Australia last year, compared with £1,689,000 in 1937, and £735,000 in 1931," the report states. "It is, therefore, apparent that the travel industry is well worth encouraging." The report states that the association's grant from the Commonwealth Government has been increased in recent years, and the fund available from all sources each year is about £32,000. "It is obvious, however," the report states, "that this is a small amount for the task of advertising Australia overseas. The fund is reduced by exchange on remittance for publicity abroad, which has accounted for £26,270 since the inception of the association. In contrast, a similar organisation in South Africa has been guaranteed a fund of not less than £84,000 sterling a year for travel publicity, equivalent to £105,000 a year in Australian currency. "Today, practically every nation is issuing a flood of travel and general propaganda, and we are convinced that it is of vital importance to Australia that the Australian National Travel Association should be accorded greater financial support to enable its propaganda to be not only continued, but progressively expanded."

LIEUTENANT KILLED

PALESTINE REVOLT

SUPPRESSION OF REVIVAL

(Received August 21, 11 a.m.)

LONDON, August 20.

The Jerusalem correspondent of "The Times" says that in the course of the suppression of a revival of the revolt, Lieutenant C. Rivett-Carnac, of the Sherwood Foresters, two Jews, one Arab, and fifteen rebels were killed and three privates wounded during a skirmish at Deir Hannah after the dispersal of forty rebels, ten of whom were wounded.

The marine control forces have seized 840 illegal Jewish immigrants and three vessels. Most of the immigrants are from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, via Rhodes. The majority of them have been placed in quarantine and others in homes for immigrants.