N.Z. Skier Becomes Instructor In U.S.

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29324, 1 October 1960, Page 5

N.Z. Skier Becomes Instructor In U.S.

TSE number of New Zealanders who manage to succeed as full-time professionals in sport are very few. but one man from Woodville who set his sights on becoming a professional skier and visiting other parts of the world has reached hir goal. Frank Reed, an instructor at Coronet Peak, in Queenstown, will leave soon to take up duties on the snows once more—this time as assistant ski school director in the Catskill mountains, only two hours and a half from New York. Together with Carl Platener, who raced for Austria with Toni Sailer, Frank Reed spends the northern hemisphere winter in the Catskills—a pqpular resort for film stars. The manager of the

resort is Jimmy Hammerstein, son of Oscar Hammerstein, who poured thousands of dollars into the project. The Americans do not suffer the problems of snow shortage during the winter, for if the skies do not produce the snow, then it is produced artificially. This process costs thousands of dollars to instal and would probably not be contemplated anywhere else out in America. Pipes are laid up the mountainside and water is pumped through them at high pressure to emerge from nozzles in a fine spray. According to the air pressure supplied by two diesel air compressors, and provided the temperature of the air is below freezing point, the water is changed into snow or ice.