TWO MOUNT COOKS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 97, 26 April 1932, Page 9

TWO MOUNT COOKS.

ENGLISH VISITOR'S MISTAKE,

"We learnt that the carillon tower that I was to visit and play in was on Mount Cook," said Mr. Clifford Ball, the carillionist from Bournville, England, after he arrived in Wellington. "At least that was something to go upon, so we got out the map, to discover to our amazement that Mount Cook was over 12,000 ft in height, which we thought was extraordinary, to say the least of it. I knew that we were approaching the Antarctic, but never dreamed it was so bad as all that, and I had a picture of myself, all wrapped in furs, trying with frozen hands to send some music out over the drifts of ice and snow outside the Alpine tower.

"We were very pleased to find that our idea of the altitude of the particular Mount Cook on which the tower stands differs somewhat to. the great peak in the South Island, but are still wondering how the site of the carillon came to be known as Mount Cook, as we have been told that what we call mountains in England,' are merely hills here, and Wellington's Mount Cook seems to be just a small hill above the undulations of the city;,"