Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-03-24
NEWzEALAND'SPL Plan
FOR TOURISTS
MANY HOTELS WITH
LOWEST CHARGES
Hawaii Favorable to, the Scheme
Travel Club Will Push Along
Good Work Now Started-vol.
canoes for National Parks.

The Tourist in New Zealand and in
Hawaii is the subject of recent ar.
ticle IN the independent that is at.
tracing considerable comment from
the press In the States.
New Zealand is held up by the
writer as an example, for America
and Hawaii IL lauded for her efforts
to follow New Zealands lead and go
her one better.
Quoting from the Independent:
I'm every large city of Australasia
there is u magnificent New Zealand
Government Tourist Bureau building
where every possible kind of informa
ton concerning the New Dominion is
placed temptingly before all who will
enter. Tours de luxe and tours of
New Zealand afoot are mapped out and
arranged with equal impartiality. The
tourist may enter the country with a
months rail transportation paid for
first or second class. at rate of from
fifty cents to a dollar day. as he may
elect to pay, and hotel accommodations
provided for first class at from two
to two and half dollars day, and
second class at a rate half as high
While widows orphans and the really
needy are especially taken care OF al
rates greatly reduced from these. for
1t Is part of the duty of the Tourist
Department to look after the health OF
the people. and the New Zealand Gov.
eminent spends millions on its health
resorts. making them really health
resorts both from recreative and sci.
entific standpoints. The man who en-
tiers New Zealand has the entire pos
sibilities OF the marvellous country
placed before him by men of science
and accuracy. The cost to him o.
travel has been reduced to a minimum
and the possible benefits exalted to .
maximum. and II has all paid New
Zealand and IFS Government splendid
dividends.
Government Ownership.
Our Government creates national
park and turns II over to monopol,
to conduct 30 that those of modest
means are kept out. In New Zealand
the national parks really belong to the
people and to the Government. Any
one may erect hotel or open up q
stage route. but II he overcharges, the
Government teaches him lesson by
erecting its own hotels and establish
ing Its own bus lines, which are con.
Quoted so as to make fair profit
This rate determined they are leased
to private parties. conditional upon
a standard service at a standard rate
both set by the Government.
1T costs a little over a cent a mile
to visit from Wellington. the capital
of New Zealand, the Rotoura District
or National Thermal Park. that In ev.
cry way rivals our own Yellowstone.
Hotel Rates.
AT the New Zealand Government
Accommodation House at Waimunga
Ia geyser that shoots 1900 feet, or sew
eral times as high as any in Yellow
stone). the rates, including room and
board, are 81 a day for the first three
DAYS and 4, ho nor d,v tharooT,ar
Ana tbia 10 a reaI s,,c,o,s oon,o.,
able ho,e, whore excei,en, meals a..
served. \, Rotoru. covornman, ~
annie has reduced bo,e, ra,a. ant
raised tho s,andard ON Tho, ,hos. -,
moderate me.n. nav sonuro an A.
comforts of hote, life IN covornmon,
reservations nj rates within reach =,
all. Even ON Noun, cook m. coyarn
m,snt hotel cbarges arc I'm, 90 IN !.
day and money Is made NJ this r.,.,
SO that other hotels fall in line am