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Show i iWw Xi'nlmul Peaceful, beautiful, a little dull by Jool Newhouse News Writer Mrs. Neville Lobbs ROTURUA, New Zealand tomatoes are doing quite well, thank you, though she wasnt able to set the plants until October. Spring arrived in New Zealand a little late this year, and things really didn't begin to warmup until For a visitor from New York, finding people spraying their rose gardens in the middle of one of the northeasts worst winters is just one of the incongruities to adjust to in this country. There are many other surprises for visitors from North America in this spectacularly beautiful land down under the land Down Under. (A part of New Zealand lies below Australia and is closer to the South Pole). Such as: water runs down the drain in a clockwise swirl, rather than counterclockwise as it does at home; the hot water taps, for the most part, are on the right, not seats on domestic airlines are in the left; the back of the aircraft; horses at race tracks run both clockwise and counterclockwise depending on what part of the country theyre running in; and the 9 is at the top of the telephone dial rather than at the bottom as it is in the States. HERES MORE, especially for someone accustomed to the vices and vagaries of big cities like New York, Los Angeles and those in between. For instance, Mrs. Lobb and her husband run institutions called Polynesian Pools. The establishments posters and brochures show pictures of sarong-drapebeauties and young couples sharing luxurious tubs "Oh well, the massage parlor has even reached this partof the world, a visitor from New York or Los r. New Zealand offers some of the most varied and spectacular scenery on the globe. 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B iston if in : itp j N in r hi m t m N itin m il wire tnm CALI ALDMO JOURS Salt Iake NEW YORK THEATRE TOUR 8 Days April 16-2- 3 David Kranes, Professor of English and Theatre, University of Utah, will you to New York, escort you to the Theatre each evening, ond hold seminars in his suite each morning He has olso arranged a private party ot Sardi's to meet direc- - ,orl' playwrights, DAVID KRANES authors, etc. y FOR BROCHURES CALL OR WRITE -- The $69900 AIL INCLUSIVE PRICE venic t $495 Inr u oi'ijtai it 7 under-populate- tour 'ii tpf'yt'Virr t j HILL CUMORAH, ' mo i ti r,t in'Pntma th1 it . mid-1800- free men with similar ethnic backimmigrants grounds encompassing all essential professions and trades were brought by ship from England. The lure: cheap land, great weather and escape from crime and taxes. THE FIRST settlers set up a strict immigration policy which continues today. Niw Zealand, which covers an area slightly smaller than California, is one of d the most countries in the world considering the vast amount of arable land available. Its population density is 30 inhabitants per square mile, with 84 percent of the population living in its eight major cities. Apart from the Maori population of 250,000, the majority (90 percent) of its 3.1 million inhabitants have their roots in the British Commonwealth. What has been wrought in a bit more than a century is $1,485 ' . Angeles might lament, but the Polynesian Pools are wholesome, family-oriente- d enterpnses where for 50 cents to a $1.50, mom, dad, and the kids can spend a restful afternoon soaking in the hot mineral waters for which Rotorua is famous. Scenically, New Zealand has as much, if not more to offer than any travel destination in the world everything from bubbling thermal mud pits to mountain peaks, from green fields and forests to magnificent fjords. THIS COUNTRY may well be the straightest, least mixed up, unkinkiest spot on the globe. And depending on how a visitor feels about it, it could be suburbia the shangri-l- a so many of us seek after personified or it could be years of bucking big city bedlam downright dull, with no cosmopolitan mix and having about as much culture as a container of yogurt When Capt. James Cook of his majestys Royal Navy first set foot on the land and claimed it for the crown in 1769, it was found to be inhabited by Maoris who had migrated from southwest Asia and Polynesia in ocean-goincanoes centuries before. a series of wars with the original settlers, After Britain began a planned colonization of the land, which Carefully selected really got into swing in the 07 $XQQ00 1978 OR WRITE JP5-944- 88 West 500 South Bountiful, Utah 84010 (801)582-030- 3 216 South 13th East Salt Lake City, Utah 84102 II I |