“BIG BLACK STORM”
First Impressions of N.Z.
“I thought it was a big black storm ahead.” That was Mr. Guy Menzies’ first impression of New Zealand as he neared the coast after flying from Sydney.
Telling his story to the EnglishSpeaking Union at luncheon yesterday he said that he got his first sight of New Zealand when three miles away from it. He mistook it for a big storm similar to one which he find encountered further out. Then he found that it was land. ‘‘lt was about twelve months ago that I started to collect data upon weather, the Tasman and New Zealand, while keeping an eye on the different machines being produced,” he said. “I tried eight ’different machines —all single engined—and turned them all down, and then I found the Southern Cross. It took some persuasion to get it, but we took delivery on Christmas Day.” When he arrived in New Zealand and was walking toward some houses he met two men who had started out to .meet him. They inquired whence lie had come, and when J old “Sydney” flatly refused to believe him.
Honorary membership of the Wellinglon branch of the English-Speaking Union was conferred upon Mr. Menzies,
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 110, 3 February 1931, Page 10
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