NZ Airways Seek Tourists
p. 20 · Read in the full issue
For South Seas
Auckland, May 25.
RECENTLY, NZ daily papers have been carrying 3-column advertisements by NZ National Airways Corporation appealing to shivering New Zealanders to “plan a fascinating winter holiday to Samoa via Fiji and Tonga.”
For £6l/4/- one may fly to Samoa and back to New Zealand —expenses on land are additional, one presumes.
Whether there will be an influx of NZ tourists into Fiji, Tonga and Samoa re mains to be seen. As the NZ airliners are at present maintaining only a fort nightly service, the number of tourists is limited to the carrying capacity of one plane every 14 days.
EDITORIAL NOTE; Both Australia and NZ are full of people with a lot of money to spend on travel. The only reason why the beautiful South Sea islands—especially Fiji and Samoa—are not packed with tourists is that all the islands lack first-class hotel accommoda tion and transport organisation. Suva has some good hotels, but they are so constantly booked out by local traffic that they seldom have room for tourists.