ZANE GREY

Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1932, Page 8

ZANE GREY

QUEST FOR SWORDFISH

FOURTH VISIT TO DOMINION

AUCKLAND, December 5. Looking frier 'the’ "ff®i’l of the i Monterey -this .morning at 'has new fishing launch Frangipani, Which was cruising round th e big Rner when she was an shored, in/'the 1 stream,- 'Mr Zane tGrey said:'“l think 'she is the pretties f thmg; I have ever seen in the water. Aou fellows in New Zealand can build boats.” Speaking 6f ■ what he termed “the fishing "adventure -I have just embarked upon,” 'M r Grey said that al- ( though fishing -was a passion with him he still managed to write-as much as he. fished. ; . "‘This is my fourth trip to New Zealand, the land of the long, bright afternoon as the - Maoris call it, said. “There ought to b e no other reason than that for visiting the U° minion, but as a matter of fact I aTn after a couple of giap't’ swordfish got away from .me in 1929.’ , . , Air Grey said that on this trip his ■companion fisherman, D r AVibofn, was tlie famous “lon e angler”'of the Tuna Club of Avalon, who was the founder of the Tyee Club of British -Cblhmbia. “We expect to spend three months in l the North Island camping on one of the beautiful points of the wild coast of Mercury Bay, where he will endeavour to put the spectacular antics. Of • the great leaping ma-ko -shark on: our motion picture film,” he continued., “This aristocrat of • .sharks and most magnificent of all leaping fish has not ; . yet -been adequately -photographed, even in' still pictures, let alone'fhe fa'cinating and scientific movie. Of course.,; we -will not turn our backs on some big black" marlin if they happen to come along.

“From Afercury Bay wo will go to lington for Tahiti, where we w’H be met by the rest of' my party in my yacht, the Fisherman D- This will he the s econd' beginning of the great cruise I planne l vo-ars ago and had to abandon in 1930.”