While there are Bibles in the bedrooms of many of the hotels throughout New Zealand, Dunedin is the only city in which those Bibles have the appearance of being used, according to comments made recently to Mr. J. J. W. Pollard, director of the South Island Travel Association, by visitors from overseas. Where adverse comment was made, said Mr, Pollard, it was mainly concerned with New Zealand cookery.' One European visitor described it as a "bar sinister on the Dominion's escutcheon," and advised the establishment of a Government school of cookery. The main complaint of an Australian party was that they did not have oysters or toheroa joup on the hotel menus,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19338, 31 May 1937, Page 14
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