NEW ZEALAND CRITICISED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18757, 13 July 1935, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND CRITICISED

SOUTH AFRICAN TOURISTS SCENERY IMPRESSES (Per Pi'prs Assoeialiou.) WELLINGTON. Inst night. -New Zealanders drink too much ten and eat too much meat. The women smoke more than is good for them. The trains ore‘better than those in Australia, and other parts of the world are sadly | in peed of better knowledge of the Do- ' minion's tourist attractions. ! Those statements were included in the summing up by two South African visit , ors before they left for Sydney to-daV by the Mararna. ’ j Nurse Cameron Brown, of East London, South Africa, who since her arrival last. November has made an intensive I tour of both islands, said New Zealand was just too beautiful, ami .so were the people. It was she who comment "al on the tea-drinking and smoking. See yas particularly impressed with the Wnumno Caves. If the C'nited States owned t! cm. she said, they would be turned into a gold mine. Nurse Cameron Brown was also very favorably impressed with the Mt. Cook Hermitage and Mamner Springs. Mr L. 11. Wormersley, of Piolerna: itzInlrg, Natal, who has been touring Australia and New Zealand in the course of } six months’ holiday which is the lot of . South African bank clerks every , five I years, favorably contrasted New Zealand’s' tourist attractions with litre of Australia. The attractions in New Zealand leave those in Australia, miles nehiitd, bo said. Even the trains rie better. He could not unders.:,i ul tv: v so few South Africans came here.