FEAR OF WAR.
DIVERTING TOURISTS TO PACIFIC. Mr R. W. Marshall, of the New Zealand Government Tourist Department, who arrived in Sydney the other day to conduct the first summer tour to New Zealand bv the Strathnaver, said that bookings for the summer tourist trade in New Zealand had already exceeded the total business of previous years. A number of cancellations had been received from Britain, owing, no doubt, to fear of war, but there had been unusually heavy bookings from the United States and Canada. It seemed that the war scare had turned the attention of American tourists towards the Pacific, and Australia and New' Zealand would reap a golden harvest
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 304, 21 November 1935, Page 16
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112FEAR OF WAR. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 304, 21 November 1935, Page 16
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