FLIGHT TO GLACIER

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3931, 14 January 1933, Page 6

FLIGHT TO GLACIER

FRANZ JOSEF RESORT LIKELY HOLIDAY TRIP (jhristichurck, Jan. 10 Franz Josef Glacier, in Smith j Westland, is likely to Become a i favourite holiday resort with j Hying people, in the opinion of i Mr J. C. Mercer, instructor to! the Canterbury Aero Club, who flew to the glacier and made a j number of passenger flights I from there last week. Fspeeiaßy in that part of the j year when there is a goo) eliance of getting fair weather, M r Mercer thinks that pilots who have once flown there w'll want to go hack to spend weekends Already the hindinsr- ! ground is good enough for any careful pilot. Mr Mercer flew over last rry.y , " • at W- I '-

tika, and going' on down to the glacier. Some of the residents there, and a number of visitors, flew round the country with Mr Mercer, to get a new angle on the magnificent scenery. Mr Mercer declares that the views from the air in this region are unequalled T" anything else in New Zealand. The longes . flight he made was one of a Tittle more than an (hour, (round Mount Cook.