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Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15347, 10 April 1920, Page 2

I i Plans for an aerial service between Timaru and Mount Cook are being discussed. A pilot is to visit Mount Cook in order to select a landing ground in the vicinity of the hermitage, and probably he will also select a half-way landing" point at Fairlie. The company which has the project in hand, intends, if suitable arrangements can be made, to use au eight-seater machine for the 'journey from Timaru lo Mount Cook, and one or two lighter machines for use among the mountains, in order that tourists may be aßle to examine the Aij pino scenery from a new point of view. i ■■ I Cleopatra's Needle, the- famous obelisk on the Thames Embankment, .London, is cne solid piece of stone, 70ft high and 186 tons' in weight. 1 *