An American tourist, who travelled down the Wanganui River last week, expressed himself to a Herald reporter as follows: “You have a wonderful country, and you have your New Zealand sunshine, but one thing you have not got, and that- is a plentiful supply of your own products.” The visitor then went on to explain that since his arrival in the dominion lie was heartily sick of finding canned fruit from his own country on ihe menu at various hotels, and in a land flowing with milk he had on more than one occasion been served with the condensed article. We can get plenty of the tinned commodity in my country,” ho added, “without having to juggle with it here, and, to say the least of it, the ad. vertisement from a tourist point of view if
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Otago Witness, Issue 3486, 4 January 1921, Page 19
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