LITTLE KNOWN COUNTRY
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. To-day. Mr Arthur Tuckermann, an American journalist, who arrived try the Mariposa to write articles on New Zealand for leading American magazines, said tliat owing to the unsatisfactory state of foreign exchanges in Europe, more and more Americans were travelling westward instead of to Europe. If properly handled the American tourist trade could become one of our most profitable industries. While not wishing to depreciate the Government’s efforts to make New Zealand known in America, ho mentioned that when he wejit to the largest New York booksellers, they, after investigation, could produce only one book dealing with New Zealand, and it was written by two American men. When Americans knew what New Zealand had to offer there would be a tourist boom.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 22 February 1935, Page 8
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129LITTLE KNOWN COUNTRY Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 22 February 1935, Page 8
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