SENSITIVE AMERICANS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19621, 27 April 1927, Page 14

SENSITIVE AMERICANS.

LUXURY LINER TOURISTS.

UMBRAGE AT CRITICISM.

DOMINION TOURS OMITTED.

Considerable offence was taken by American tourists who visited New Zealand and Australia on the liners Franconi;i and Carinthia at the criticism they received in the columns of the press. Whether as a result of this or not, the organisers of the tours havo decided to omit the Dominion and the Commonwealth from the itineraries of future tours. Complaint was made at the time by the tourists and the matter was taken up by the New Zealand Tourist League when in January last the Carinthia, conveying the tourists, reached Sydney, and a cablegram was sent that the visitors complained of the comment made on them by Now Zealand papers. The league wrote immediately to the Carmthia's owners and asked for fuller information about the complaiuts so that it might, if necessary, make further inquiries iu order to remove any genuine grievance. By the Aorangi's mail yesterday the league received the following communication from the agents, Raymond, Whitcombe and Company, of Boston, United States: —" The clipping from the Auckland papers that you sent us seems to sum up the feelings of the passengers in the mattor. To our mind the attitude of the press, in Australia particularly, was entirely undignified, and this left in the minds of the passengers very unpleasant feelings. "On our previous year's cruise there were similar occurrences and our visit to Perth and Fremantle especially was made unpleasant by the attitude and audible comments on the part of those ashore :, t the time of our arrival. We do not feel that it is worth while going into this matter more seriously with you as we have cut New Zealand and Australia from our itineraries and for the present, at least, abandoned our visits to your part of the world."