“In Search” Series Author Invited To Add Books On N.Z.

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23218, 1 April 1950, Page 4

“In Search” Series Author Invited To Add Books On N.Z.

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 1. Mr. H. V. Morton, the famous author of the “in search” series of travel books, is to be invited to New Zealand to write a book on New Zealand. “For years in Fleet Street I worked alongside a friend and colleague with a descriptive pen who could do our country justice,” said the Minister in charge of Tourist and Health Resorts, Mr. F. W. Doidge, last evening. “I am writing forthwith to Mr. H. V. Morton inviting him to come here in search of New Zealand.” Mr. Doidge returned to Wellington yesterday afternoon from an official visit to the glacier regions of the West Coast of the South Island. “As a North Islander, I am ashamed to And how little I knew about the superb scenic attractions of the South Island,” he said. “My vocabulary is too limited to permit mo to attempt to describe scenes that are so spell-binding as the Fox and Franz Josef glaciers dominated by the high, snow-crested Southern Alps.” , Mr. Doidge said that again he felt it was his responsibility as Minister in charge of Tourist Resorts, not only to awaken New Zealanders themselves to a realisation of the beauties of their own country but. more particularly, it was his task to make known abroad the glories of the most wondrouslybcautiful country in the world.