The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-30
NEW zEALAND'S
TOURIST BUREAU
How the Southern Sea Colony
Attracts the travelling
Public There.

Hawaii can learn several healthy,
sensible and thought inspiring lessons
from New Zealand and the way they
do things there, and throughout the
Antipodes New Zealand has Gov
eminent Tourist Bureau that does
things on a splendid scale, does them
well, and then invites the world IN to
enjoy the results. How does she do
things, and then giving him unlimited
backing. The story of New Zealand as
tourist resort is largely bound up
with the history of one mana real,
live New Zealander.
The Tourist Bureau in New Zealand
is department of the government,
with a director at its head IT. E.
Donne), whose Office is almost as i'm
portant and consequential as that Of
any cabinet minister.
The Tourist Bureau builds hotels,
runs automobiles, stage lines, steam
boats, cuts roads and trails, builds,
operates and maintains systems Of ac-I
employs an army of guides, spends one
hundred thousand dollars annually adj
vertising New Zealand resorts, and as
much more IN maintaining palatial of
fees at home and abroad, issues illus
trated literature of every kind by the
ton, compels reasonable hotel, railway,
steamboat and stage-ine rates where
ever it can, either by moral suasion or
direct government interference, in be-
half Of the man who wishes to travel
in New Zealand-and it all pays
pays so well, in fact, that New Zea-
land contemplates an American inva-
sion to secure both tourists and set
tiers, and is only pausing to learn what
steps Hawaii viii take to bring about
consolidation of Pacific Ocean inter
ests that they may all be jointly repre-
sented throughout the American Con-
tinent
Mr.. T. E. Donne, Superintendent of
the Government Department of Tourist
and Health Resorts of New Zealand,
is man who does things. He is a
friend of President Roosevelt, who adj
mires his energy, and has had the
pleasure of Mr. Donne's company at |
lunch at the White House. Mr.. Donne |
believes in New Zealand; that it is the |
of the whole world; but he |
does not believe in sending ont a sin |
gle circular that is in anyway mislead- |
ing or withhold information to which |
the tourist is entitled. At all his sub |
offices he has lists kept, not only of all |
the hotels and their rates, but of the !
boarding houses also, and there is no |
talk in New Zealand of the desirable |
ity and superiority of the ten-dollar- "a |
day tourist over the man who spends |
less than this amount. In fact, Mr.. |
Dome s whole time is occupied in the /
attempt to make it easier for the man |
who has far less than ten dollars a day !,
to spend in New Zealand; and he finds /
it pays New Zealand to look out for I
the dollars as well as the pounds. So
well has the Tourist Department been
that the town of Rotorua has
turned itself over to the |
of Mr.. Dome, and here /
after this most famous and populous
health resort in New Zealand will be /
by the head of the Tourist
Bureau.
Magnificent baths and sanatoriums,
equal to any in the famous spas of
Europe. have been erected at Rotorua,
by the Tourist Department, yet the
rates at these and at the hotels and