AUSTRIAN SKI EXPERT
AKRIYAL AT WELLINGTON GOVERNMENT ENGAGEMENT LESSONS FOR NEW ZEALANDERS [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] WELLINGTON, "Wednesday Wearing a jaunty Tyrolean hat, with feathers stuck in the band, and adorned with badges and trophies of his ski-ing career, Mr. Ernest Skardarasy, the well known Austrian ski instructor, arrived at. Wellington. to-day by the Wanganella. His luggage consisted largely of six pairs of skis aaid a K-oluminous alpine rucksack.
Mr. Skardarasy, who has previously given winter sports coaching to New Zealanders at the principal Dominion centres, will this season be stationed at the Chateau Tongariro under engagement to the Government Tourist Bureau. He will leave Wellington for the Chateau to-morrow.
Although he spends the northern dumrner in the South, teaching at Australian and New Zealand resorts, Mr eJkardarasy returns to his home, near Innsbruck, Austria, when it is winter there.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23059, 9 June 1938, Page 15
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