Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-10-10


Melbourne Elaborate
In Melbourne, Victoria, the Gov
eminent Tourist Bureau maintains
Ialatial Offices and exhibition rooms.
II is needless to say that not only Is
the tourist conducted everywhere,
but even the young men who go
away for their two weeks summer
vacation are taken care of by the
Bureau. Ridiculously low excursion
rates are made on the railways from
time to time to Adelaide, a thousand
miles beyond to Broken Hill, and
even to Sydney and Brisbane. while
the bona fide tourist is always given
half rates or less. Everything IL
done to tempt the people to travel
and observe. The Cook representa-
tives complain here, as they do in
New Zealand, that while the Govern
mcnt Tourist Bureaus have multi
plied tenfold the number of tourists
and travellers in the last decade, their
commissions as travel brokers are
less in the aggregate. transportation
rates having been reduced almost ev-
erywhere from a shilling to as low
and sometimes lower than a penny a
mile. and at this the transportation
companies make money.
At Adelaide, the capital Of South
Australia, a Government Tourist Blu
reau is to be established and corre-
spondence opened with your commit
tee.
From West Australia come cordial
assurances of healthy cooperation In
the Joint plan proposed, the Bureau
at Perth, the West Australian capt.
tai, awaiting the result Of our con-
ference with Mr.. Hunter.
Joint Tourist Bureau
Your secretary discussed with Mr..
Hunter in Sydney year ago some
of the outlines of a plan for joint
Hawaiian-A Australasia work in Amer
lea. Mr.. Hunters Bureau is mag
nificently organized; the clerks seem
to have every possible bit OF infor-
nation at the tips of their fingers.
There are the outdoor men who can
conduct you anywhere, the indoor
men who seem to have been every
where, so as to be able to tell you
about II and enthuse you. and there
is a clerical force upstairs. Guide
books there are to everything, even
to booklets that tempt you to become
a trolley-car fend or an habitue Of
the ferry boats. There are conduct
ed trolley tours, differing daily. and
all sorts Of conducted or prearranged
daily and weekend combination trips
at reduced fares. And 1t all pays.
The Australasian Tourist Bureau is
a place beloved by the people, where
even school children go for instruc-
ton about their own land and are
welcomed.
From Sydney there are little tours
to the Blue Mountains. Jenolyn
Caves, owned and conducted by the
Tourist Bureau, as is the hotel at
the mouth; steamer tours of the near
by rivers, and ocean tours at $3.50
per day to the New Hebrides. Solo
mon, Marshall (more than half way
TO HawaiD, and other South Sea and
equatorial islands. to say nothing OF
a cruise at the same rate along the
Australian coast to still savage New
Guinea.
Success: Best Proof
So successful have the Australasian
Tourist Bureaus proved that all the
States are falling into line. Queens
land now has her Government Tour
list Bureau. with headquarters at
Brisbane. whence the tourist Is sent
inland or up the coast to the won
derful Kearns Falls country. while
New Zealand has palatial offices In
Sydney and other Australian cities,
although a combination for mutual
work In each others country is now
on foot.
The steamship companies with
headquarters at Brisbane wish ia
participate in a plan for Joint Tour
list Bureau, as do those OF Melbourne,
Sydney. and New Zealand. 1t is
likely that the cheap cruises to the
South Sea islands will be looped up
with Honolulu and even the Pacific
Coast. The five-dollar-a-day cruise
from the Coast to and among the
Hawaiian Islands Is being brought
about by the Matson Company. and
Everything seems In position to join
hands with Australasia for the OK,
ploitation of the Pacific for the ben
eft of the tourist and the permanent,
settler. ~.
Japan is also preparing for tourist
promotion work In America. and
even Dutch lava Is contemplating
something of the sort. A combina
ton with these for Round-the- Pacific
cruises from the west American
coast ports via Hawaii may be wortl
considering and discussing.
What Would It Cost Hawaii
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