Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-02-21

HOI bG SuDEfOl ny SOllle vi HIS men.
but he knew the bills should become
laws for the good of Australia. Sew.
eral Of his party deserted him and a
new leader was called to form a new
parliament But al the end of a week
the new leader announced that he
could not succeed. Again Mr.. Watt
was sent for and he has organized a
party now that will stick by him
through thick and thin, for what is
best for Victoria. He has the conf.
dence CT all parties because he is alb.
solutely sincere and straightforward
and more than mere party leader
Vietoria's Tourist Bureau.
The tourist bureau in Victoria T.
really an adjunct of the railways. with
splendid offices on Collins street The
improvement of the mountain resorts
and seaside resorts has been under
taken and carried out by the railway
department, but there are portions of
Victoria as beautiful as anything in
Australia, far away from a railway.
and these the railway department
could not be expected to spend money
upon. The interesting thing about
the Victorian Railways is that it's
commissioners are all men born and
bred in Victoria, Mr.. McClelland. The
present commissioner, under whose
direct supervision is the tourist de-
partTent is a man who has risen
from the ranks. He has helped to
develop the Victorian railways until
their service is the best in Austral-
asia, and he has largely assisted in
carrying forward the plan to have the
railways built so that no grain coun-
try will be more than 10 miles from
a railway station
] had intended travelling from Syd-
Ley northward by way of New Guinea
TO Java, but as wished to inyasti.
gate the possibilities OF the S. a day
cruise around the Pacific. and this
can be done only by utilizing the
southern and longer route, booked
passage on the IndarTa for Fremantle.
West Australia. The Indarra Is a
vessel of 10000 tons and has SWIM
ming tank of solid cement and tiles.
In which my assistant, Joseph Stick.
rey, disports himself daily, for it is a
10 days trip from Sydney to Free
mantle. Young Stickney is learning
first-hand how .touiis' bureaux 10
cure, and then take care of the tour
list. sit is a wonderful game. and the
boy shows a natural aptitude in learn
ing it. Usually ] do the talking. but
the first thing ! know, my listener is
surf-board riding with Joe
and telling him all about how the
tourist should be taken care of, and
as Joe has had two months experi-I
ence in Gkaliis House, which is the
New South Wales university where
the tourist men are educated, he can
usually hold, up his end or the con-
versaticn. Joe is usually invited TO
the banquets and lunches at which II
am supposed to make the talks, and
everyone is eager, on learning his
to give him information and
automobile rides to see the country;
Ind this is as wish it, for Joe is do
ing more to advance my plea for a
system of cadets to be moved around
that Pacific than any argument that
can put forth, for he has pleas
ant personal acquaintance with the
personnel and workings of all the
tourist bureaux of the South Pacific.
Welcomed in Melbourne.
In Melbourne the Indarra stops for
.wo days, and we were lunched by HI.
J. Manson, the New Zealand trade
to Australia, and an en-
.husiastic supporter of the Hands
und-the-Pacific Movement He
pledged that the New Zealand tourist
bureau would be represented in the
n-Pacifici pavilion at the exposition,
T. K. Emmett, the Tasmanian commits |
'ioner, pledging his island, where the |
Independent tourist bureaus, through |
he assistance of the railway depart |
nent, will soon be consolidated into
/ regular government tourist bureau.
,. B. Edward of the office of external
lffairs for Australia, pledged the sup
,ort and cooperation of the common
wealth, and Henry Stead, editor of the |
Review of Reviews, announced that |
lis magazine would stand behind the |
in Australia, while the
Dress announced that it would give its I
hearty support and is doing SO. In |
adelaide, where We stopped for a day, !
We met the premier and were enter
aimed by the government, ministerial
being placed at our dis
'osal A. H. Day, the aggressive
,ower behind the South Australian
Railways, is responsible for having
lad the government tourist bureau di-
.orced from the railway department
md have appropriations. of its own,
With Victor H. Ryan in charge. Mr..
ayan has certainly shown how the
ouTist can be taken care of. AIDE
aide is not very much larger thar
honolulu, yet the monthly reports
how that the tourist pays thousands
f dollars through the bureau to be
aiken care of within "a radius of a
ew miles of Adelaide. The bureau
las great automobile buses called
which go out over the
yofty range of mountains twice day.
nd always crowded The bureau is
lso developing beautiful parks bel
ond the city where tea-houses are
uilt and placed on paying basis.