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TOURIST TRADE TO BE INVESTIGATED REPRESENTATIVE CONFERENCE PA WELLINGTON, Dec. 29. Immediately on his return from the conference of Commonwealth Ministers at Colombo, the Minister in Charge of Health and Tourist Resorts, Mr Doidge, intends to hold a conference (probably at the Chateau Tongariro) of all those interested in means of expanding New Zealand’s dollarearning tourist trade. “In New Zealand we badly need dollars —we need at least 30,000,000 dollars to meet our average yearly commitments in the United States,” said Mr Doidge today. “In common with other Commonwealth countries, we are pledged to cut our claim on the dollar pool by 25 per cent. Needing dollars, we face the problem of how to earn them.”
Those invited to attend the Chateau Tongariro conference include representatives of the chief hotel groups, principals of travel agencies, representatives of the main shipping lines, road transport companies, and railways.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27276, 30 December 1949, Page 6
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