Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-12-01
AUSTRALIAN PRESS WORKING GOOD,
REPORTS ALEXANDER HUME FORD

the railway information bureau in
Adelaide His splendid work COM
PEELED them to separate his depart
ment from that of the railway, so that
now all tourist resorts are under Mr.
Ryan's bureau Daily auto buses
capable of taking 40 passengers, start
out for the mountains, fully loaded
with people who pay five shillings
each, and in months a trip has never
been missed. Within two hours after
! leaving the tourist bureau. the ex-
cursionists are 2300 feet above the
| city, skimming over the beautiful
roads of the Mount Lofty range, at
the very summit of which the tourist
bureau has it's hotel, a hotel sur
rounded by gardens more beautiful in
their terracing and color than any l
have ever beneld. There is not one
trip by auto bus to these mountains,
but several, to say nothing of the sea
side resorts. Mr.. Ryan is now erect
ing accommodation houses in noun
tain gulIies and thus compelling an
extension of the trolley line into the
very mountains themselves. Even
Sydney itself can learn something
from Adelaide. Adelaide gets out a
city map for the tourist that is prob
ably the most useful map of its kind
published anywhere. On a column Of
one side Is list of 43 places in the
city of interest and these are clearly
shown on the map. 1t is a wonder
fully easy map to handle, and l spent
my first day In Adelaide visiting
these 43 places of interest. At the
end Of the day knew my way about
Adelaide as well as I do about Ho-
nolulu. The Adelaide park system
surrounds the inner city, then again
the outer city. In the inner park
system are the botanical gardens
with their display of roses.
A river flows through the inner
park and on its bank is the most
compact and sensibly arranged
geological garden have ever visited.
Adelaide has taken such splendid care
of the tourist during the past five
years that she is reaping rich re-
ward in immigrants who have been
interested by tourists and visitors to
Adelaide. These tourists have been
taken over the mountains in the back
yard of Adelaide, and shown the most
extensive vineyards in the world.
They have seen the olive, orange, the
apple and the fig growing together on
these mountains in place of the ma
tive blue gum which is being cleared
away. There is land enough in these
mountains to support a million or
chardists. Strange to say, South Aus
tralfa raises the early fruit for the
commonwealth besides sending ship
loads to the London markets. The
press and public of South Australia
took a keen interest," in the movement
to get the Australasians, to work to |
gether to make Australasia known to
the outside w orld. The same is true
also of Melbourne Here the state
railway runs the tourist bureau, and
naturally the bird with clipped wings |
can not fly to any great extent The |
state railways of Victoria are splen-
didly managed, but 1T is unfortunate |
that the tourist body is not an indie |
pendent body, but that may come in |
time. There are wonderful tourist re- !
sorts to be developed in Victoria, but |
many of them are far from the rail-
way and only an independent tourist |
bureau could create and develop them. |
The Victorian tourist bureau does enc
thing better than any other tourist !
bureau. It Is sensible enough to re- |
main open during the one hour of the |
day that it can be the most useful to J