TOURIST CHANGES

Evening Star, Issue 19723, 25 November 1927, Page 3

TOURIST CHANGES

DOMINION AND AUSTRALIA SHOULD CO-OPERATE SPLENDID POSSIBILITIES [SrnciAi. to tub ‘ Stab,’] CHRISTCHURCH, November 25. Giving his impressions of a lengthy tour of the tourist resorts of Australia, Air R. L. Wigley (manager of the Alount Cook Alotor Company), who returned to Timaru yesterday, stated Australia’s tourist traffic was swamping local resorts, and there was the possibility that the overflow could be tapped and brought to New Zealand. Air Wigley considered that if the Tourist Departments of the two countries combined, and the co-oporation of the Railway Department and the shipping companies was obtained, a round trip could bo organised at greatly reduced rates, which would attract hundreds to New Zealand. “ There is a tremendous field in Australia,” he said, “ which could be worked with satisfactory financial outcome for New Zealand. There are plenty of people willing to travel, and plenty have money which they are willing to spend. _lt would pay the heads of the Australian States and Now Zealand to appoint a board, with a general organiser to push tourist traffic between the two countries and America. This would he one way of balancing tho money going out on imported cars from America.” Mr Wigley stated that he had gone to Australia prepared to meet with a good deal of jealous feeling for New Zealand, but had encountered only the friendliest of relations in his tour.