EVERYDAY SCENES IN JAPAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12546, 13 April 1904, Page 1 (Supplement)

EVERYDAY SCENES IN JAPAN.

dition that certain improvements were made. What offer do we make in the way of a counter attraction? Of course, Canada is near Home, as compared with New Zealand, and the passage is proportionately quicker and cheaper. There are Canadian agents in every important place in England, inducing people to emigrate. New Zealand has nothing of the kind. The colony is not exploited. at all, so far as I could make out, Some years ago the Rev. Mr. Berry delivered a course of lectures on New Zealand, thus giving the people at Home an opportunity of learning something about us. But this has not been billowed up." "What about tourists?'' . "We have so much of interest to showvisitors that we shall always have a fair number of tourists. There is. however, a. distinct want of a better communication bet ween Sydney and Auckland. lam thinking of the size of the steamers provided. The best steamers of the Union fleet run between Wellington and Sydney. Some arrangementshould lie made for the P. and 0. and Orient steamers to call here. No doubt the P. and 0. and other big companies could be subsidised. and a. service established which would result in an enormous increase to the tourist traffic. A 'vessel of the Ophir dass, for instance, would be filled with visitors in the season. There are many ways in which the great natural advantages possessed by New Zealand could be made more widely known.''