Is The Journey

Necessary?

Americans, who are sometimes ac cused of being more interested in what they can buy abroad than what they can see, may now be able to save themselves a long haul South.

Bill Richardson, a Sydneysider, has set up a Down Under shop at Waikiki, Honolulu, where he sells boomerangs, sheepskin rugs, toy koalas and other things without which no tourist trip to Australia is complete.

He is reported to be doing a roar ing trade with holidaying mainland Americans.