BOOK REVIEW.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 94, 31 January 1934, Page 3

BOOK REVIEW.

"SKYWAYS OF MAORILAND." Perhaps the first book on aviation in Zealand, "Skyways of Maoriland," by Hugh Gardiner, comes' as a delight not only to the airman hut to the general reader, for though it is a detailed account of the proceedings of an Acre Club pilot, it tolls a fascinating story without a single lapse into technicalities. Issued first a lew days before Christmas, the hook is ready to go into its second edition already. , The author is a pilot of the Wellington Aoro Club and has had thr-ee-and-a-hnlf years of flying, and the experiences that'have been his in that time have been incorporated in his book. Opening with a brief historical survey ot flying in the IDominiou, it goes on to deal with the training of pilots, and i give,? an illuminating account o|i the joyous feeling that comes to the airman who has reached that stage where he takes the 'plane away alone. The remainder of the book deals in interesting fashion with a 1300 miles journey which the author made round the North Tsland, and it has been brightly written. Something of the rugged grandeur of the North Island is visualised as, in imagination, one travels around upon the author's magic carpet —Moth 'plane, ZK-AAZ. The book is well illustrated and set up and it has an appreciative foreword by Air-Com-modore Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith. The book is published by McKenzie, Thornton, Cooper, "Ltd., of Welliiigton.