AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS IN LOVE WITH NORTH

Northern Advocate, 31 March 1937, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS IN LOVE WITH NORTH

Glad to be Back After European Tour Now visiting New Zealand on the last lap of a world tour, Mr and Mrs W. C. Thomson, of Melbourne, are determined to return to the Dominion for their next holiday. This speaks well of the scenic charms and people of Northland, because their impressions of the country so far have been largely

gleaned in Russell and Whangarei. “We only' had a few days in the Bay of Islands, but, even although the rain intervened, we saw enough to wish for more. We will certainly be back,” Mrs Thomson told an “Advocate” representative, at the Whangarei station yesterday morning. Since leaving Melbourne 15 months ago, Mr and Mrs Thomson have seen the greater part of Europe. On a trip to the Scandanavian fjords, they travelled from Newcastle-on-Tyne aboard the Meteor, which was once the ex-Kaiser’s private motor launch. A considerable time was spent in Germany. Military Spirit In Germany. “The Germans are busy making things,” Mr Thomson remarked. “The military spirit is being infused even into children of 10. r ‘Like most of the European people I believe that the Germans are not preparing for war, but to protect themselves in the event of the|r being attacked. They appear to be contented and prosperous. It is a strange sight for Australians andvNew Zealanders to see the women working in the fields.” Mrs Thomson ventured the opinion that the German people showed little interest in strangers, being apparently quite bound up in their own happiness. “We are gladUo be back among our own people,” both the travellers agreed. “It is so refreshing after travel on the Continent to feel that one is back home again. The accommodation at the Northern .hotels we have stayed at is really first class.”