TRAFFIC FROM OVERSEAS

Taranaki Daily News, 8 April 1927, Page 9

TRAFFIC FROM OVERSEAS

END OF GOOD TOURIST SEASON. BIG INCREASE FROM AUSTRALIA. (Special to News.) Auckland, Last Night. A large increase in the numbers of visitors from overseas has been a feature of the tourist season in New Zealand, now drawing to a close. “It is gratifying to note that overseas traffic is increasing,” said Mr. J. W. Clarke, manager of the Auckland office of the Tourist Department to-day. “In my opinion, it will go on increasing every year now. The Dominion cannot help itself in this respect. The country is replete with scenic and other interests for the visitor from overseas.” Mr. Clarke predicts a still further increase in overseas traffic next season, provided New Zealand is left free from any industrial’ troubles, epidemies, etc., factors which have an important bearing on the tourist traffic. A feature of the traffic from overseas this season has been the abnormal invasion from Australia, not taking into account the delegates to the Medical Conference at Dunedin, and the tour of the New South Wales bowlers. In past year, this branch of traffic has been practically “killed” through shipping strikes and other industrial troubles. This year, happily, both countries were free from this sort of thing, and hundreds of Australians spent a few weeks touring the Dominion.