LINCOLN ELLSWORTH’S VISIT

Evening Star, Issue 21825, 14 September 1934, Page 12

LINCOLN ELLSWORTH’S VISIT

SUGGESTED AERIAL TOUR OF OTAGO Tins morning Mr 11. S. Black (president) and Mr W. B. Steel (secretary of the South Island Tourist League) waited upon Mr Lincoln Ellsworth at the Grand Hotel and placed before him a proposal that prior to his departure for the far south that he should make a trial with his aeroplane and take a bird’s-eye view' of the beauties of the jumping-off place. Aerial photographs of such charms as the mountains, glaciers, rivers, lakes, and forest of Canterbury, Otago, and Southland would be a magnificent counterfoil to the pictures of the Frozen Silence of the southern icecap, and would give his fellow-countrymen and the whole world indeed some idea of the contrasting vistas enjoyed by the explorers. Mr Ellsworth received the suggestion most graciously, but regretted that the time required to land and prepare the plane would make too great a demand upon them. The novelty of the idea, however, and the knowledge of what ho would see appealed to him, and he assured his visitors that if, they would keep in touch with him on his return, and the uccossarv arrangements could he made, he would gladly avail himself of the opportunity to sec and snap the rare samples of scenic beauty which he understood were hidden away in the Fortunate Isles. If his own plane was not available, then perhaps local machines might bo utilised for the voyage.