TIMARU PRAISED.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, Issue 17693, 6 July 1927, Page 8

TIMARU PRAISED.

SOME WONDERFUL HOMES

CANADIAN VISITOR’S .IMPRES- . SIONS,

Caroline Bay in particular, and Timaru in general, came in for a good deal of praise from Alderman J. Adam, of Victoria (British C6-' lumbia), manager of the Canadian Association football team, which is to fulfil an engagement with the South Canterbury representatives this afternoon. “Some of the homes in Timaru are among the finest I have seen anywhere in New Zealand,” said Aiderman Adam, when conversing with a “Herald” reporter yesterday; “Outwardly they are very picturesque, and some of them are beautifully situated. As for Caroline Bay, well it certainly is wonderful, and has no equal in this country. Some of the boys were down there training this morning, and they are going down again to-morrow morning, for they have struck nothing like it during the whole tour. It is easily the best training ground we have had, and we intend to make the most of it.” Alderman Adam went on to say, that they had enjoyed every minute of the few hours they had been in the town, and they were quite looking forward to the remainder of the programme. “We had a most interesting visit to the woollen mills,” said the visitor, “and I understand we are also to see other industries, which should be equally interesting.” Discussing the trade relations between the two countries, Alderman Adam said that New Zealand was not nearly well enough known in ' Canada, but in the near future the position should be greatly improved. It was hoped that the visit of the team to this country would serve to make-the people of Canada better acquainted with New Zealand, for all twenty members of the team had been sending home, at odd times, papers, pamphlets and books which had been secured from the Government tourist bureaux; and thpsa were bound to Be distributed j throughout Canada. “This is but one way of advertising your country,” he said, “but when we get back home the papers in the various cenI tres where the members of the team I reside will have interviews, and by means of these we will be able to | our people what we think of New Zealand, and what we have seen of its people, its mills, and its factories.” '■ “New Zealand seems only a very small place on the map,” said Aiderman Adam, “but is certainly a very big country when you come to travfel through it. And it is also a. very busy country, juding by the volume , of exporting done. When", I was in Auckland I had a conversation with . the Canadian Trade Commissioner (Mr C. M. Croft), who informed.me - that trade between New Zealand and Canada had improved during the ' past four years by about 100' per : cent., but there is room for a bigger improvement even yet. A good deal 1 of New Zealand mutton is sent toEngland, but Canada can do with more than she is getting. There is a good demand for the mutton which reaches our Dominion, but I feel 1 sure that there are. many parts of the country which have not , even 1 seen it.” Alderman Adam also went on. to refer to the export of butter from New Zealand to Canada, stating that the only butter which was imported by his country came from this Dominion, and it was selling at ! the same price as the Canadian, product, namely 2/- per lb. “Articles which could well be exported to CaI nada are woollen rugs,” said Alder- , man Adam,, “for/tliey are"among the finest articles of their kind that A ■ have ever seen. The only trouble is * that the price might be against them, , but for all that I feel sure a market could be found for them. I was also very interested in the flax country in the North Island, and that is a product of which \ve use thousands ! of tons every year for binding. There are numerous ways in which the trade between the two Dominions could be fostered, with material benefit to both, and I am of the opinion that a trade delegation from the Dominion would do an immense amount of good.” When asked his opinion concerning the people of New Zealand, Alderman Adam said that when they arrived they hardly knew what, to think. They' had heard that the people were very hospitable, and the opinions expressed had not been misleading in the slightest degree. They had been warmly repeiVoa everywhere they had been, ami the opinion of every member of the team was that New Zealand was a wonderful country, with a wonderful people. “ Everything possible had been done to make our visit enjoyable,” said Alderman Adam, .and we greatly appreciated receipt ol a cable at Suva' from the Prime Minister extending a welcome to us, and expressing the hope that our tour would be a happy and a memora.uo one. From that message we knew what was in store for us, and from our point of view the time has parsed all too quickly.” The question of publicity was again referred to by Mr Adam, who said that he hoped when he returned to Wellington, to secure a film or New Zealand scenes, which would be shown first in Victoria, and later ill other theatres throughout Canada. “Hotel charges in New Zealand are very reasonable,” said Mr Adam, “but the -hotels are not to be cofnpared - with those of Canada. . In Canada the rooms are very large, and as in all the homes, are centrally heated, but the charge for a room was as much as the tourist paid fop full board in New Zealand. The service in the - hotels is quite gP° d » 'however, and we have been made very comfortable everywhere.