But if the Union Company took him in hand, placed Sbefore him a bill of fare including, say, a call at Milford Sound, a visit to Ijake Manapouri or Lake Wakatipu, a run through the refreshing agricultural country between the Clutha and Dunedin, ■with a look at the Taieri Plain, and a glance at Borne of the show places around Dunedin, then the "holiday tripper might be induced to screw tis courage to the sticking point. The entire |onroey need occupy no longer than a fortnight. The passenger would have all the trouble of .studying railway time tables, bargaining with jhotelkeepers, ice., &c, taken off his mind. For a .-certain set sum of money he would see the finest of the wonderful scenery of which he hears so cnuch, enjoy a glorious sea voyage, and beJanded hack in Melbourne at a certain specified time. This is the kind of programme which would •entice the humble tourist who has only a limited purse and only a limited holiday. There is pro bably no reason why sp-oial boats should be laid on to enable such a programme to bs carried out. The company might issue a standing invitation of a kind for the whole of the summer months. You in New Zealand can form little idea of how universal an institution the yearly holiday to all men in business is throughout Australia. It is a recognised fact, that a man who is called upon to do any kind of exacting work in this climate nesoa a period of thorough relaxation-—a fort night up to a month—to enable him to recover fresh vigour. ' But one thisg the Union Company ought to remember, though it does not seem to, is that punctuality needs to be the essence of the con tract. There are hundreds of men who get a fortnight's holiday every year. They are servants •sn some firm's employ, and require to present themselves without fail when the fortnight is ap. As the Union boats run at present it is ■quite impossible to do a trip to New Zealand, .even simply to go io the Bluff and back again for a blow on the briny, in that period of time. But it could easily be arranged so. 