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Otago Witness, Issue 3961, 11 February 1930, Page 22

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VISITORS TO DOMINION

ATTRACTIONS OF THIS LAND. AUCKLAND, February 6. Seeking restoration of his health, Mr E. E. Head has come all the way from the Homeland to visit the Rotorua baths. “ Ye*,” he said, '* I have travelled 14,000 miles to endeavour to regain my strength, and I am most hopeful too. Now I am so close to my object 1 can't get there quick enough.” Mr Head is doubled up with rheumatism. and can only walk with the assistance of two sticks. “The reason why I am in Auckland is simply that this is my transhipping port for Australia,” said Mr Bertram Phillips. Mr Phillips is a brother of Lord Kylsant, of Carmathen. chairman and managing director of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and the Union Castle Line and Associated Companies. Mr J. Cordery, another passenger, is an artist and is en route to Wellington, having joined the Tamaroa at Panama. Mr and Mrs J. Stokes have come from Peru. Mr Stokes was born in Peru, and has been in business in that country most of his life. He and Mrs Stokes have come to New Zealand to “ have a look round,” as he explained, “ with the object of possibly taking up land and settling here.” Firmly convinced that New Zealand offers better trout fishing than any other country in the world, Mr E. W. Dean, of Canterbury, England, arrived by the Tamaroa and left by motor for Rotorua. It is Mr Dean’s third trip to the Dominion, and if he is as successful this year as he has been on his two previous visits, he will be fully satisfied. It is Mr Dean's opinion that Tongariro is far and away the best trout-fishing river he has ever tried, and he has had experience of fly-fishing in all parts of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and in Norway and British Columbia.