ROTORUA COMPARES FAVOURABLY WITH YELLOWSTONE PARK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18772, 30 May 1929, Page 3

ROTORUA COMPARES FAVOURABLY WITH YELLOWSTONE PARK.

General William Crozier (retired). United States Army, is at present in Christchurch during the course of a tour of the Dominion. The general was Chief Ordnance Officer of the Unit ed States Army from 1901 until 1918, when he was appointed Major-General of the Line, and a member of the American War Council. General Cro'Aef saw service in the theatre of the Great War in Italy, and France, and he speaks well of the New Zealanders with whom he came in contact. He retired from the army at the close of the war and since then has done considerable travelling, being now on his third world tour. He is accompanied by his wife.

Speaking of Rotorua, which he visited on his arrival in the Dominion weeks ago, the general stated that it compared very favourably with the thermal regions of the Yellowstone National Park in America Though some of the geysers at Yellow stone were bigger, the steam blow holes at Rotorua were rather more remarkable.

From Rotorua, General Crozier travelled by car to Napier and on to Wellington. Picton was the next place visited and from there he travelled by ear and rail on to Nelson, Westport, Greymouth and thence to the glacier 'egion. Franz Josef, stated the general, was a very fine example of a glacier In Switzerland, there were no glaciers that came so low as Franz Josef, and the snow-capped mountains from which it emerged made a remarkable contrast vith the semi-tropical vegetation amid vhich it ended. Speaking of New Zealand as a whole. General Crozier remarked that they in ffie United States found it very interesting indeed, and the scenery quite up to what was said about it, which was a good deal. , _ Yesterday afternoon General Crozier drove round Christchurch and its environs. He left this morning for Mount Cook.