NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20504, 24 August 1936, Page 14

NEWS AND NOTES

A hotel which was probably one the most unusual in the world i visited by Rotarian C. H. Slater, Hastings, during a recent visit to A tralia. He told members of the Hj ings Rotary Club that at Southp Queensland, there was a most update hotel, yet the proprietor t only the slightest interest in it, whole life interest being in the bots cal and zoological garden which, attached to the hotel. This gar was the proprietor’s hobby, ana n were more monkeys than were in Sydney Zco. Indeed, it had pra cally everything that the Sydney possessed except the larger exhit There was also a “butterfly which was a glorious display, semi-tropical growth in the gar was a delight, and so also were log cabins, which, constructed out mud and logs, were covered by goi ous and vividly coloured semi-trop blooms. "No wonder New Zealand is getl so much favourable publicity in foreign Press.” said Mr Mason War an American journalist, who rece finished a tour of New Zealand i letter cf farewell and appreciatior I the Government Department of Tc ist and Publicity. “Nowhere else In world have I found more intellij and helpful co-operation from pu officials than in your country. Y tourist bureaux, libraries, museum < ators, railway officials, the Goyi ment hostel managers—everybody met—were so genuinely friendly 1 I am at a loss to express my appr ation.” A family party recently left Mana-watu in the very latest mode an eight-cylinder motor car for a r winter tour of the North Island. A including many detours, the sp ometer gave an average of 143 n per day when they had reached haven of rest at Tauranga. 1 parked in a garage, the approacl which w’as over a steep little dip clay bi Iks. Making an early i for Gisborne. 200 miles away, on a morning, the engine stalled in i gully and the car ran back a few against the back. Nothing could suade the shapely beauty to res the journey, so after many trials ’ was towed back to the workshop the engine completely disman ’ After three hours she was reassen in view of the party, many intert 7 mechanics and other spectators, s there were no signs of life. , 1 another bewildering 10 minutes a 1 boy pushed a stick into the exh , pipe, and found it plugged solidly clay from the bank into w’hich car had backed.

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