VISITOR’S PRAISE.
THE TOURIST DEPARTMENT. Per Press Association. NAPIER, March 12. In the light of her experiences with the Government Tourist Department in London and New Zealand, the Duchess o.f Westminster considers that there is not another travel bureau in the world (o rival it in completeness of organisation or one which makes travel so carefree. She gave this opinion advisedly after repeated visits to many European countries. “Often agencies in Italy and Germany merely run their fingers over the map,” she said, “and to all intents and purposes there is very little they can tell you. But your Government Tourist Department arranges everything and its representatives are intelligent. Her Grace said that well-to-do English people were travelling much farther than they did before tlie war. Then thev paid yearly visits to Cannes, Nice, or 'German, Austrian and. Italian town’s and watering ivices. Now they went farther afield and showed much more intelligent interest in the Dominions.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 89, 13 March 1935, Page 6
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