TOURIST TRAFFIC.
SOUTH ISLAND COMPLAINT. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 4. “The South Island is not receiving its rightful share,” stated the report presented to the annual conference of the South Island Travel Association by its director (Mr J. J. W. Pollard), this morning. ■- The Mayor of Dunedin (Mr A. N. Allen) presided. Figures from the Tourist Department’s report were quoted, giving the. number of tourists in New Zealand for the past three seasons as follows : 17,297; 1937-38, 19,532. Those all represented increases on the pre-depres-sion returns, but it had to be noted that at least 6500 came on cruise ships and stayed only a few days. Virtually none of those visitors came to the South Island. The estimates suggested that the total number of overseas tourists to the South Island last year was about 5000, slightly more than a quarter of the total. The Tourist Department estimated the money brought by visitors at £1,200,000-
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 290, 5 November 1938, Page 11
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