AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS
INDUCEMENT TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND FREE STEAMER FARES. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, September 25. Free steamer fares will be granted under certain conditions during October and November by the Mount Cook Tourist Company of New Zealand, Ltd., to Australians who wish to spend a holiday travelling in the Dominion. Instructions for publicity in the. Commonwealth were sent to-day by cable and an extensive advertising campaign is to start there immediately. The company has the co-operation of the Government Tourist Department which has undertaken booking in Australia. The plan was announced to-day by Mr H. Coxhead, of Timaru, secretary of the Mount Cook Company, and of the Tongariro Park Tourist Company, Ltd. The company was paying the steamer fare, he said, realizing that the traffic from Australia was going to be slacker this year than previously and it was felt that by means of the scheme the numbers during the coming season would be maintained at their ordinary level. Single fares would be paid if a certain percentage of the tourists’ expenses was spent in New Zealand with the company and if a higher figure was spent the company would pay the return fares. Apart from this the people were free to plan their own itinerary and go anywhere in New Zealand.
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Southland Times, Issue 21198, 26 September 1930, Page 7
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214AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS Southland Times, Issue 21198, 26 September 1930, Page 7
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