SCENERY PRAISED.
FLIGHT OVER GLACIERS. VISITOR FROM HONOLULU. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Amazement at the grandeur of the mountain scenery of South Westland, the beauty of the glaciers in winter, and the viewe obtained in his flight over Mount Cook was expressed by Mr. Arthur Merian, of Honolulu, when he paid a short visit to the West Coast.
Mr. Merian, who had only a few hours at his disposal, yet determined to see /the beatity of South Westland before he left New Zealand, made, the flight in a machine piloted by Captain J. C. Mercer.
Mr. Merian boarded the aeroplane at Greymouth at 7 a.m. and after stopping at' the Franz Joseph Glacier Hotel for breakfast, went on to the Fox Glacier and the surrounding mountain country, finally landing at Inchbonnie, where he caught the Christchurch express at 11 o'clock. . r '.:,
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 167, 18 July 1938, Page 9
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