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PRAISES THE DOMINION. SHOULD BE AMERICA’S CAMPING GROUND.” “If your beautiful country with its manifold attractions was not so far from America it would be tlie camping ground of American tourists.” This was one observation made to a “Standard” reporter this morning by Dr. Malcolm T. MacEachern, the noted American authority on hospital management who is at present touring the Dominion and who arrived here tins morning from Hamilton. “Mrs MacEachern and myself have been delighted with what we have 6een of New Zealand,” stated the doctor. “Its scenery, climate, and above all its very fine people, hospitable and couiteous to the highest degree, have greatly impressed us, . . “We have just come from Wairakei and Rotorua and were keenly interested in those thermal regions. “If 'the distance between New Zealand and America was not so great I am sure that it would be the camping ground of American tourists,” he stated, adding that, by making the Dominion better known on the other side of the Pacific, many more people would bo induced to visit this scenically beautiful country. , , . “The tourist cannot look out of his window in any direction without seeing pleasing scenery,” added the visitor,” and that in a measure is a detraction, for he simply can’t ..look at it long enough; he can’t take it away with him, and he can’t come back often enough to view it.” The facilities for sport, he noted, were unlimited. Fishing, hunting, golfing and all kinds of outdoor sports were to be enjoyed in abundance. A feature commending"the country from the point of the visitor, too, was that one did not have to travel any great distance to vary the scenery. . “I wish, though, that more information about New-Zealand' with its scenery and productivity could be filmed and screened in America. Australia is now sending one scenic film a week over for release in Canada and U.S.A. and the result has been the dissemination o? a great amount of information about'the Commonwealth.”
Dr. MacEachern expressed the hope that New Zealand, if it had not already done so, would follow suit.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 102, 30 March 1926, Page 6
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