AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22830, 14 March 1936, Page 14

AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS

ARRIVAL OF STRATHNOVER TOURS THROUGH NORTH ISLAND (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, March 13. With over 1100 Australian tourists on board, the P. and 0. liner Strathnaver arrived at Auckland this afternoon on her final transtasman tourist cruise of the season. Officials of the New Zealand Government Tourist Department travelled on the liner from Australia and arranged large bookings covering various overland tours during the visitors' brief stay in the Dominion. Many tourists are making one-day trips to Rotorua, and others are leaving on overland rail and car tours of the North Island, all visiting Rotorua and then proceeding via the National Park, New Plymouth or Napier, to Wellington. The Strathnaver will leave Auckland at 11.15 p.m. to-morrow for Wellington, sailing from Wellington for Sydney on Monday night. This is the Strathnaver's second trip of the season. All told, there have been five tourist cruises by the Strathnaver, •Strathaird, Orama, and Otranto, with a total of 4000 tourists, as against 4300 last season. The increase is the result of co-operation between the Tourist Department and interested shipping companies, and is regarded by all parties as a particularly hopeful sign for the future.