Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-10-10
Timely Schemes Suggest
ed BY Hume Ford
For Hawaii
GOVERNMENT SUPPORT and
SUPERVISION OF TOURISTS WORK
Man From Australia Soon To Arrive.
Where Tourists Are Drawn
From-How To Get
Them

At the meeting and lunch OF the
Territorial Transportation Commit
tee. held at the University Club at
noon today. plans were made for the
entertainment of Percy Hunter, the
delegate from Australasia, and head
of the New South Wales Tourist Blu
reau, who is expected on the Korea.
He will draw up a working plan
with members OF the committee for
the proposed Joint Australasian-Ha
waiian Bureau In New York City.
The following Is the report read by
the secretary of the committee:
To His Excellency the Governor Of
Hawaii and the Directors OF the
Territorial transportation Com
mittee.
Gentlcmen:-Mr. Percy Hunter,
manager of the New South Wales
Government Tourist Bureau. is ex-
pected to b. with us from the 18th
to the 18th of October to discuss In
behalf Of Australasia the drawing up
of plans with Hawaii for joint work
In advertising In America the allure
ments OF our Paradise Of the Pacific
and Australasia. II may be of inter-
est therefore to know something OF
the work of the Australasian Bureaus
and the manner in which VIC can all
work together, Hawaii being the log
zeal stopping place one way or the
other of all who cross the Pacific.
Your secretary visited last year
Fill, Samoa. New Zealand. Tasmania.
Victoria, New South Wales, and
Queensland, studying the Govern
ment Tourist Bureau systems there
and interesting the Austria ksians In
their neighbor, Hawaii.
In Fiji and Samoa everything is
done through the Governors. and II
seems likely that some sort of CO.
operation will come about in this
direction. although at present neither
is equipped with tourist bureau.
Tourist Bureau
In New Zealand the head of the
Government Tourist Bureau holds al
most Cabinet position. He builds
new roads, cuts trails, erects hotels
and accommodation houses, conducts
the affairs of city that Is also a
resort, puts rival transportation lines
In service when local management
10 extOrtionate. and In every way
looks out for the comfort of the tour
list, local or foreign. Literature dis
tributed Is only side issue, the sat
isfaction given the tourist after he
arrives In New Zealand Is the great
advertisement that lures others sea-
son after season to visit the wonder
land OF the South. The manager of
the Tourist Bureau is an outdoor
man of remorseless energy, who
knows every trail or mountain path
In New Zealand. II a trail is I'M
certain In winter he leads his guides
and makes the trip, and then, II II
Is safe. sends the tourist on his way,
with an accommodation hut every
ten miles Mt his disposal. where hot
meals or a nights rest may be secur-
ed at two shillings each. Soon, these
huts grow into hotels and the trail
becomes a road, and farms spring VI
along the route. This is what the
Tourist Bureau is doing for New
Zealand and the Tourist.
Caring For Tourist
In Tasmania, with population
about the same as that of Hawaii
the Government maintains a splen.
did little Tourist Bureau. In Hobart
you may be rung up at your hote
and CHEEKY voice call, do you wish
to go anywhere today" YES" YOU
say. Cup Mount Wellington" "Al
right" comes the quick response
"I'll send around and see II party
can be made up and let you know II
half an hour" The party Is mad,
up, two hack loads, and the glorious
trip enjoyed at small cost In di
rectlng the tourist to a list of equal
ly reliable hackmen in Tasmania, tn,
head OF the Tourist Bureau himsel
sees to the comfort of the stranger
and there are splendid trips planned
for him everywhere about Tasmania
and list kept of those who wish t
make them whenever party is be
ing formed, Australians and New
zealanders go to Tasmania to be Ia