TRAVEL AGENT FOR SOUTH ISLAND

Evening Star, Issue 22890, 23 February 1938, Page 17

TRAVEL AGENT FOR SOUTH ISLAND

MISS E. M. SYKES APPOINTED With the tourist field in Canada and the United States of America improved by the unsettled conditions in the East, the South Islands Travel Association has appointed Miss Edith M. Sykes as its representative in these countries. The appointment is the association’s first step in overseas representation, and it may lead to further appointments. Miss Sykes has toured the Dominion and has gone to Auckland to join the Niagara for Vancouver. Commenting on the appointment, Mr J. J.'W. Pollard (director of the association) said: “Within the last month I have come across evidence of the paucity of information about this Dominion in booking offices in the American Continent and even in London. In these offices the emphasis is on the North Island attractions, and often tourists book to the country without kowing of the existence of the South Island. I have been told, too, of an almost complete lack of information about steamer and train connections within the Dominion, and rather hazy ideas of the various details associated with travel in New Zealand. Miss Skyes will be able to advise travellers about every detail. Farewell Parties. Miss L. Morton, who leaves on Friday next on a tour of Canada and on to Great Britain, has been the guest of honour at several farewell parties. On Friday afternoon she was entertained by the Play-reading Circle of the Women’s'Club. Those present included Mesdames A. A. Fairbairn, Wakefield Holmes, Norman Ellis, V. E. Galway, E. L. Eastgate, S. P. Cameron, Murray, R. Nimmo, and Misses A. M'Dougall, L. M‘Carthy, and G. Fannie. On Saturday the committee of the Federation of University Women gave a morning tea party at the Otago Women’s Club in honour of Miss Morton, who is their president, when she was presented with a travelling writing case. Those present were. Mesdames F. J. Turner, Windsor Wood, Angus Ross, and the Misses Blackmore, I. Turnbull, and E. Henderson. In the afternoon a delightful tennis party was held at the home of Mrs Cleghorn at Sawyers Bay, when she was presented with a lovely travelling cushion by her fellow tennis players. Last evening ,the Misses Jones, of Roslyn, were hostesses at a party at the Wilford Tea Gardens, when the guests were given the opportunity of wishing Miss Morton “ bon voyage.”- f