PUBLICITY FOR N.Z.

Wanganui Chronicle, 16 October 1947, Page 4

PUBLICITY FOR N.Z.

NOT WARRANTED IN BRITAIN AT PRESENT Wellington, Oct. 15. Wider advertisement of New Zealand from the tourist's point of view was not warranted at present, said Mr. R. Sunley, assistant secretary io the New Zealand High Commissioner in London, who arrived on Monday by the Corinthic, Mr. Sunley, wno has been in the New Zealand High Commissioner’s office for the past 12 years, is retiring from the Government service. He said that travel difficulties and tile accommodation problem in New Zealand made further publicity for the Dominion a waste of time. "Besides,” he added, “New Zealand is held in very high esteem as It is. If you say you are a New Zealander you get the run of the place in Britain." Mr Sunley said that the greatest problem tackled by (he staff of New Zealand House was repatriation of New. Zealanders who had been stranded during the war. This and the transport of brides and fiancees of New Zealand servicemen had been successfully completed. Conditions in England were not so bad as painted by some, concluded Mr. Sunley. Having lived there for 12 years he had grown accustomed to the gradual tightening of rations and life was not impossible.