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WHY TOURIST TRAFFIC! > TREBLED? “AMERICA IS DRY; CANADA IS NOT.” “I have heard that the tourist traffic into Canada has trebled during the past three years,” stated Mr John Myers (ex-president) in the course of the deputation from the Wellington Chamber of Commerce to Ministers yesterday, * The Prime Minister : Do you know the reason? America is dry and Canada is not. (Laughter.) I don’t .want tourists to oome to New Zealand for that reason. When I was in Vancouver last, I was told that 100,000 people had come over at Christmas from America to spend their holidays there; and it was jocularly suggested that the reason was what I have stated.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11932, 12 September 1924, Page 6
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