NEW ZEALAND SUMMED UP

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 July 1935, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND SUMMED UP

VISITORS’ ESTIMATES. (PEB PHERR ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, July 12. New Zealanders drink too much tea! They eat too much meat. The women here smoke more than is good foi them. The trains are better than, those in Australia, and other parts of the world are sadly in need of a betui knowledge of the Dominion’s tourist attractions. These statements were: included in a summing-up by South African visitors, before they left for Sydney by the Marania. _ One is Nurse Cameron-Brown, oi East London, South Africa, who since her arrival last November, has made an intensive tour of both islands. She said New Zealand was “just too beautiful,” and so were its people. It yras she, however, who commented on the tea-drinking and the smoking. buc was particularly impressed with uie WaitSmo Caves. . If the United States owned them, she said, they would be turned into a gold mine. Nurse Cameron-Brown was also very favour ably impressed with the Mount Cook Hermitage and the Hanmer Springs. The other visitor was Mr. LR. Wormersley. of pietermaritzbui g, Natal, who has been touring Australia and New Zealand, in the course of a six months’ holiday, which is the lot of a South African bank c.erk even five years. He favourably contrasted New Zealand’s tourist attractions with Australia’s. “Those in New Zealand would leave Australia s miles he said. “Even the trains are beetei. He couid not understand why so few South Africans came here.