SOUTHERN TOURIST RESORTS

Evening Star, Issue 19764, 14 January 1928, Page 4

SOUTHERN TOURIST RESORTS

lACK OF INFORMATION (Special to the ‘Stak.’J CHRISTCHURCH, January 14. The Waitomo Caves, with their myriads of glow wonns, are ono of the sights of u lifetime, according to ]\tr J. A. Flesher, ' u recently paid his first visit to them. He was astonished to see from the visitors’ book how few Booth Islanders seemed to have visited them. Fully 90 per cent, were North Islanders and overseas tourists. “ While at Waitomo.” Mr Flesher told an interviewer last night, “ I met an American visitor, who told me his itinerary had been made out in Auckland, and the only points of interest in the South Island that were mentioned were Christchurch and Mount Cook. .1 told him of the attractions of Otago and the West Coast. This man was a mountaineer, but had been told nothing about the Franz Josef Glacier and other attractions. This is not the first instance of lack of information concerning the South Island given by the Tourist Department in the north. It seems an illustration of the desirablemess of officers in charge of tourist bureaus being shitted around more frequently.” ________