MILFORD SOUND

Southland Times, Issue 25641, 7 April 1945, Page 3

MILFORD SOUND

BIG ATTRACTION FOR TOURISTS After 11 years abroad, Dr A. J. Harrop, editor of the New Zealand News, London, and until recently agent of the University of New Zealand m Great Britain, arrived in Dunedin on Thursday and left for Milford Sound yesterday. Dr Harrop told a reporter that on his last visit to New Zealand he had been forced to omit Milford Sound from his itinerary, and had promised himself that he would go. there next time he came to the Dominion. “I am confident,” he said, “that Milford Sound will be one of the principal attractions for the many thousands of visitors who will come to New Zealand by air ana sea after the war. New Zealand will need every resource she possesses to meet the strain of postwar economic adjustments, and the tourist industry can play a great part. Years of war have dammed up a tremendous tide of travel from the United States, and if New Zealand is prepared she should benefit greatly when it is released. “After a few days at Milford and Te Anau I will return to Wellington to discuss with the authorities many problems Which I know will be worrying the thousands of our prisoners of war I expect to find in Britain on my return there,” Dr Harrop said. “There are many borderline cases in rehabilitation, particularly with men desiring to do university courses in Britain, and I hope to be able to give in the New Zealand News some real guidance to the men whose future careers may be made or marred by decisions taken at this stage of their lives.” Dr Harrop said he had some suggestions in mind about university reform and the maintenance of adequate standards in New Zealand education, but he did not wish to make them public until he had had an opportunity to talk to the authorities in Wellington. “I have been in New Zealand little more than a week on this occasion, so that my views are not based on much experience on the spot,” Dr Harrop said, “but there seems to be an undercurrent of anxiety about exactly where recent changes will place New Zealand in comparison with other countries. One thing I do know, and that is that New Zealanders who have taken university posts in Australia think that the standards are much higher in the Commonwealth schools in some subjects than they are here.”