VISITORS’ VIEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1935, Page 5

VISITORS’ VIEWS

CONDITIONS IN DOMINION (Per Press Association.—Copyright.! WELLINGTON, July 12. New Zealanders drink too much tea. They eat to much meat. The women here smoke more than is good for them. The trains are better than those, in. Australia, and other parts of the world are sadly in need of a better knowledge of the Dominion’s tourist attractions. These statements were included in a summing-up by two South African visitors before they left for Sydney by the Marama. One is Nurse Cameron-Brown, who since her arrival last November, lias made an intensive tour of both islands. -s>he said New, Zealand was “just too beautiful.” and so were its people. It was she. however, who commented on the tea-drinking and the smoking. She was -particularly impressed with the Wnitomo Caves. If the United Slates owned them, she said, they would be turned into a gold mine.

Nurse Cameron-Drown was also very favourably impressed with, the Mount Cook Hermitage ami Tlanmer Springs. The other visitor was Air L. B. WornuTsloy, 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 clerk every five years. Tie favourably contrasted New Zealand’s tourist attractions with Australia’s. “Those in New Zealand would leave Australia’s miles behind,” lie said. “Even the trains are better.” He could not understand whv so few South Africans came here.