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A DIFFICULTY IN N.Z. ••NOTHING TO BUY” (Special to thi) Horald.) AUC KLAND, this day. ‘•\Yi do nut get enough money from mir tourists,” remarked Mr. 11. S. Dudley yesterday on his return from his sixth tom of the Hast. “Visitors coming to New Zealand on sightseeing Lent are anxious to spend money but lack the opportunity and encouragement. The first thing many tourists ask when going to a new country is ‘What can yon buy there?’ but in New Zealand there is very little indeed 1 that is typical of the country to buy. We l'eallv need to manufacture something that Can he sold to visitors at: a good figure, something they can take away and prize as a memento ol their visit. In the basement of Die. Imperial Hotel in Tokin there tire 20 shops selling goads purely to tourists, and many people spend hundreds of pounds there buying curios and articles of Japanese inanttfartnre. There is nothing like if in New Zealand.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17233, 12 April 1930, Page 8
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169SECOND EDITION TOURIST ATTRACTIONS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17233, 12 April 1930, Page 8
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