THE NEW SOUTH WALES ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11853, 3 January 1902, Page 5

THE NEW SOUTH WALES ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

FAVOURABLE IMPRESSIONS OF NEW : ZEALAND. [Ny TELEGRAPH.—own correspondent ] Wellington, Thursday. The Hon. B. R. Wise,'Attorney-General for New South Wales, who has arrived in Wellington, has had a very pleasant trip through the Hot Lakes district. He says he w«>s surprised to find that the facilities for travel in the country districts of New Zealand arc so complete, that the holiday resorts are so accessible, and above all that the hotel accommodation is of such an excellent character. "I think it a pity," ho said to a Wellington interviewer, "that your holiday resorts are not more extensively advertised in Australia. For years I have gone to Hobart for my holidays, whilst if I had known what I know now about New Zealand, I should have come here. Over in Australia people have an idea that Rotorua is a place only for invalids, and that if you travel in the country districts of New Zealand you must stay at bush inns. I was surprised to find that Rotorua is so accessible, and that the accommodation is so excellent. ' So far as the advertising of these places is concerned, one may see one of your large placards at a railway station, and that is no doubt good so far as it-goes, but it is not by any means enough; and I think it a good thing, therefore, that branches of your Tourist .Department are to be opened in Sydney and Melbourne." Moreover, our visitor is greatly impressed with the quality of the land he has seen in New Zealand, on his way from Rotorua. He came through by coach to Ohingaiti, along the route of the North Island Trunk railway. "I was amazed," he said, "at the quality of the land, and yet I was told that what I saw. then was only second-class land. Yes, this is a fine country," added Mr. Wise. "It is what! might describe as a very manageable country, and I must say that so far as I am able to' judge, the men who are at its head are managing it very ■well." Mr- Wise, who is on a trip partly of pleasure and partly of business—that of studying industrial conciliation and arbitration law— leave in three or four days for the Southern Lakes. ' ■ .