ATTRACTIONS FOR TOURISTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13874, 7 October 1908, Page 6

ATTRACTIONS FOR TOURISTS.

CONTEMPLATED IMPROVEMENTS. [BY TELEGRAPH.—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT J j ;-!■: I ./''■'■ Wellington, Tuesday. | The annual report' of the Tourist and : ■; ! Health Resort Department shows that .there was a decrease of 11,082 visitors from i overseas as compared with the previous, j-year, which, owing to the Christcliurc" - I Exhibition, was an abnormal one in lll |- respect. The majority of the visitors come from Australia. The .value of the year's tourist traffic to this country is estimated aj £430,000. At the agencies in Sydney asa Melbourne the nunibers of person! who , willed for information were 16,733 an ,■ 11,982 /respectively, and an agency « ( been opened at Vancouver. ; , It is hoped to obtain a large nufflrfi of settlers of-good class from India, a-; rangements have be[e» made with the/"; penal Government to give ■• tinie-eXpii'« a officers and men'the option of a nee parage to New Zealand, in lieu of their parage back to Great Britain. % Many ot-tn«" people, it is pointed out, retire on comfortable pensions. / ■ , j ■ The chief improvements contempt ei \ this year are tie J accommodation houas at Waitomo Caves and Te l'uia, '' U , '"I | borne 1 . It is also'proposed to erect a ' J -- F building in stone' neftr Mount Cook, > the Southern Alns. - I lie vim*.- i- not m-JJ far distant :when it .will be iotuid ; •tavh»yo/^tri^r»mK::brr ? ««:;l^U^p , ; ~