TOURISTS' COURT AND RAILWAY INQUIRY OFFICE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8755, 18 March 1890, Page 3 (Supplement)

TOURISTS' COURT AND RAILWAY INQUIRY OFFICE.

The following is a list of newspapers and publicationsio be found on the tables in the reading room in the Tourists' court:—Queen, Truth, Weekly Times, Illustrated London News, Penny Illustrated, Pall Mall Budget, Home News, Weekly Scotsman, Glasgow Weekly Herokl, Glasgow Weekly Mail, •Detroit Free Press, Fishing, Tit Bits (London), Magazine of Music, Australasian, Sydney Mail, Waugaratta Chronicle, Adelaide ■Observer, Advertiser (South Australia), South Australian Register, Australian Journal, Weekly Press (Christcluirch), N.Z. Mail, Auckland Weekly News, Budget and Taranaki Herald, Hawke's Bay Herald, lYtiiroa Guardian, and Otago Daily Times. The committee are largely indebted to Mr W. J. Prictor, of North-East Valley, Dunedin, for supplies of English publications.

On the tables at the railway Inquiry Oflice are to bs seen post office directories for New Zealand, Victoria, and New South Wales, New Zealand Illustrated, and Nalivo Flowers of Now Zealand, kindly supplied by Wise, Camo, and Co. Stone's Otago and Southland Directory, supplied by the publishers, New Zea'and ferns from Miss Reid, aud several albums of New Zealand views by Burton Bros., and for distribution to bona fide tourists. Mr Kneesbaw, the officer in charge, has seven separate maps of various tourist resorts iv New Zealand, viz., Sounds, cold lakes, Aorangi, Westland, Nelson, and North Canterbury, thermal springs, New Zealand grand tour, and the tourist map. also the Switzerland of New Zealand, published by the Lakes committee at Queenstown, railway time tables, and Crown lands guides. Tho court has prove;! oE the greatest advantage to visitors to the exhibition and is highly spoken of, whilst as an advertising medium with foreign tourists the benefits to New Zealand are incalculable.

The stream of tourists from Australia has now slackened, but Mr Kneeshaw informs us that there are still large numbers o£ North Island visitors in Duncdin, whilst during the past week some 3000 have arrived from Christchurch and Invercargill.