CLEAR ATMOSPHERE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 250, 22 October 1928, Page 5

CLEAR ATMOSPHERE.

LOS ANGELES ASSETS.

HOLLYWOOD AND PICTURES.

COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIES ALSO.

"I come from Hollywood, but I have nothing to do with pictures. The impression in New Zealand seems to be that anyone from Hollywood is in the picture line, but it is not so."

Thus spoke Mr. Lorenzo Pellaconi, who is in Auckland awaiting the arrival of the Niagara to go back to the States after an extended visit to Australia and New Zealand.

Mr. Pellaconi said that Hollywood was synonymous with Los Angeles. It was a residential suburb, and it had come so much into prominence because the motion picture industry had been centred there. The visitor was born in Los Angeles, when it had a population of a few thousands. It has now a population of over a million, and the number is steadily increasing. He said that Los Angeles had an equable climate and a wonderfully clear atmosphere. To the latter fact was largely due the surprising development of the motion picture industry. It was ccrtainly a bi<r fea ture, but, in addition, Los Angeles had a multitude of commercial industries, including, in its near vicinity, some of the richest oil wells on the Pacific Coast.

Mr. Pellaconi said that one of the problems of Los Angeles was the provision of an adequate water supply. Originally water was supplied from a small river on the environs of Los Angeles. Nineteen years a;ro it was decided that an expenditure of 25,000,000 dollars he made to build 250 miles of aqueduct to reach cold water on the mountain range. Now Los Angeles was proposing to build nearly 300 miles of aqueduct to cross a burning desert to bring the waters of the muddy and far-off Colorado River into tlie fertile valleys of Southern California.