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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13744, 8 May 1908, Page 7

Interviewed at Dunedin, Mr. T. E. Donne, the head of the Tourist Department, expressed the opinion that tlijß 1907-3 tourist season had been the. best on record. " Most of our visitors," he said, come from Australia, and there is a splen-did-field there for our operations.. The climate makes it imperative for the Australians to"-' have a change at least every alternate year, and New Zealand alfords the most radical change to them at comparatively small.;cost. of money and time. Very few came from America, however, and the stoppage of the San FranciscoAuckland service is no doubt the cause. Americans' every'year are travelling in hundreds of thousands, Europe being the lodestar; but many are satiated with the Old World attractions; and would come to New Zealand and Australia if they could; do so conveniently and in comfort. Hundreds of inquiries, too, are received from Amdo-Indians--army and Civil Service men—who are seeking a new location on the expiry of their, appointments." An engine driven by suction gas is liftin*' 120,0(10 gallons an hour, a height of 42ft, at /an irrigation farm near Forbes, New South Wales, at a cost- of 4d per hour. This insane a shade over a penny for eachinch of water per acre. '