The regulation step of the British Army is 120 to the minute. One thing that impressed itself on Mr A. W. Gent, passenger superintendent of the P. and O. Company, on his arrival in Auckland last week, was the lack of provincial jealousy on the part of New Zealanders. Describing his experiences in the Dominion on his arrival in Christchurch yesterday. Mr Gent said that he was told, time and time again, when he was touring the North Island, that he must see the scenic wonders of the South Island before he left the country, otherwise he would not have seen all that New Zealand had to offer the tourist. Even in Rotorua, a to\yn which has considered itself the principal show-place of Nwe Zealand, he was told the same thing.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 296, 14 December 1931, Page 11
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