ZANE GREY AGAIN IN N.Z.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17957, 8 December 1932, Page 8

ZANE GREY AGAIN IN N.Z.

FISHING EXPEDITION PLANS FOR WORLD CRUISE Delighted to be back in the country with what be described as the finest game fish in the world, Mr. Zarm Giey, the American novelist and fishing enthusiast, arrived at Auckland on Monday. As the mailboat entered the Waitemata harbor site was met by a nutguilii:cnt new launch, the Frangipani, which has been built for Mr. Grey by .Messrs. Golfings and Bell, and which lie proposes to use at the deep-sea fishing grounds at Mercury Bay. ■‘l have been wanting to come back to New Zealand ever since 1929, Mr. Grey said. “'Everywhere 1 have Seen I have told people about your wonderful shark and swordfish and the great lighting trout of the Tongariro River, and it will be a pleasure indeed to battle with them once more. "On this trip we hope to get some motion pictures of lighting mako. In my opinion, the mako is the aristocrat of sharks and the greatest of all leaping fish. He lias not yet been adequately photographed, even in still pictures. My film, “South Sea Adventures,” has recently been most favorably received in the United States, and it should be released here and in Australia in the near future. It (contains scenes of my previous fishing trips to Now Zealand.” ENTHUSIASTIG FISII INC PARTNER Mr. Grey’s New Zealand visit is only the start of ’ a world fishing expedition. Ho is accompanied by Dr. J. A. Wiborn, an enthusiastic fisherman, ktiown as the "Lone Angler” of tho Tuna. Club of ,\ mloti, ainl founder of the Tver. Club of British Columbia. Other members of tho party are Mrs. Wiborn, Mr. Grey’s secretary, Miss Wanda Williams, and two expert cameramen, Mr. 11. C. Anderson and Mr. J. E. Morlmrdt. . Tho fishing camp has been established at a site on the imriidand, about nine miles from the Mercury Bay wharf, on a terrace shaded by giant pohutukawa trees. Mr. Grey intends spending some weeks at Mercury Bay before visiting Taiipo. for the trout lishiug. Eater be. will go to the* South Island for the salmon fishing. Present plans provide for a departure from Wellington for Tahiti in April. There the party will go on board Mr. 'Grey’s yacht. Fisherman 11. and will be joined 'by Mr. Grey’s two sons, his daughter, and his brother, Mr R. G. Grey. A leisurely cruise will be made among tho tropic islands of the South Seas, and then the party will fish the waters of North Australia, cruising round the Great Barrier Reef, Torres Straits, and the Gulf of Carpentaria. The route will then lie through the East Indies to Ceylon and the Indian Ocean. “We shall return home by way of Suez, the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and tho Panama Canal,” said Mr. Grey. Mr. Grey has with him some new fishing tackle, mostly for the big game-fish-ing. He has some special new hickory rods and some, newly-developed HardyZane Grey reels: