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road which had hairpin curves for excite-
ment.
Nora also tried her hand at sheep
shearing. She watched shearers who do 200
sheep a day. The wool is then pressed into
huge 300 pound bales and shipped to a wool
exchange where buyers come to look over
the product and bid on their purchases,
From Waimate the girls went to Queen-
stown, where they stayed at a mountain
resort lodge. Here they enjoyed typical
vacation sports including jet boating, boat
cruises around the lake, river rafting and
horseback riding.
Audrey took the gondula up the mountain
to the resort restaurant to enjoy dinner one
evening. The restaurant is accesible by ski
lift only,
Following their stay at the lodge, they
returned to Christchurch and flew to Wel-
lington, North Island and took a 50 seat
plane to Rotorua, known for its sulphur
ge•surs.
Here they stayed at another resort lodge
where they found Jim Henderson's name
in the guest book. It's a small world, muses
Nora. Mr. Henderson and his wife of
Lucknow had been travelling in New Zealand
with their son, just prior to Nora and
Audrey's trip there.
While in Rotorua, the girls attended a
Maowii concert. The Maowii are native New
Zealand people and the concert was a
panorama of their native music, and
costumes.
While in Rotorua they toured the Rainbow
Forest, a fish hatchery which prides itself as
a sanctuary for the native Kiwi bird of New
Zealand.
The girls left Rotorua for the Bay of
Islands where they met their host families
for their stay in New Zealan
While staying with their h . t families, the
girls attended a conferen of rural youth
clubs at Waipu on - ' can for two days.
They camped in six or 12 man tents on the
beach which the girls observed were more
beautiful than the beaches in Hawaii.
Following the two day conference, the
girls left with the Canadian group for
Auckland airport and took the four hour
flight to the Fiji Islands on the first leg of
their flight home.
The girls observe the Australian and New
Zealand lifestyle is far more casual than
Canadian lifestyles. To be an hour late for an
appointment or engagement is not unusual.
and is acceptable,
Their language is peppered with a colour
ful slang and these foreign expressions make
it difficult to understand them at times,
They eat when they are hungry or as the
day's schedule dictates instead of lunch,
breakfast and dinner at regular times. The
only established time for any meal is tea
time at four in the afternoon. The big meal of
the day is dinner between 7 and 10 p.m.
depending on the day's activities.
Tubbing is a national pastime. Disco
music is the craze in pubs presently.
Television borrows heavily from the
American shows produced in Hollywood,
only the series are several years behind.
Three's Company with Suzanne Sommers is
very popular right now. in movies, E. T. has
just arrived.
Prices for movie theatre tickets are less
than in Ontario. A ticket to see a movie costs
$2 but household appliances and cars, which
have to be imported, are very expensive.
Cars costing $9,000 here run about $15,000
there and appliances for the home are
expensive, An iron costs S50, hair dryers run
between S50 and $60 and a toaster is 5100,
Overall the girls discovered Australians
are more knowledgeable about Canadian
affairs than we are about current events in
Australia or New Zealand. They are hungry
for news from North America and Europe
because their lifestyle is similar to the
western countries but their location on the
global map isolates them from their counter-
parts in Canada, United States and Europe.
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