TOURIST POSSIBILITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14211, 12 May 1908, Page 3

TOURIST POSSIBILITIES.

rar: Melbourne agency.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) CHRIST-CHURCH, May 9. Mr H. J. Manson, agent in Melbourne ior the New Zealand Tourist Department, who arrived in Christchureh last evening [rom the south, expressed himself as highly delighted with the scenery in that part of the Dominion; and said there would doubtless bo a large influx of visitors from ' Victoria next, season., Mr Manson was appointed the New Zealand representative in Victoria some two years ago, and is \ory hopeful ot the prospects of the tourist traffic between that State and New Zealand. New Zealand, he said, was the first to open up an agency in Victoria, and the Australian States were not slow to follow her example, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, and Western Australia now having offices in close proximity to that of New Zealand. The lack of knowledge in regard to this Dominion was astonishing, most people seeming to imagine that a holiday of some six or eight weeks was necessary for a visit to the6o part*, and that the trip would cost something like £50 or £60. Mr Manson is convinced, however, that it is possible to pay a visit to the southern scenic resorts and return to Melbourne in the period of three weeks at an expense of about £25. Mr Manson leaves for the north after a trip to Hanmer.