“DOING” NEW ZEALAND

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 15 January 1931, Page 6

“DOING” NEW ZEALAND

OLD NELSONIAN TOURING BV CARAVAN A neat and compact motor trailer caravan on the side of the road along Maitai Bank for the last few days lias attracted attention. That trailer, for the next two years, will be the “home” of Mr C. J. Frank, a veteran press photographer oE Melbourne, who is about to start on an extended tour of New Zealand. “I’m going to do it thoroughly,” said Mr Frank when interviewed tliis morning. “With an itinerary covering 7000 miles it will take me two years to complete my tour.” The tourist, who is travelling alone with camera, wireless and gramophone for company, intends spending the first three months in the Nelson district, mainly in the Takaka area. He will then work down the YVest Coast so as to be at the glaciers for midwinter, and then will return to Nelson and continue his trip down the East Coast, visiting Mt. Cook and the inland lakes of Otago. He will later proceed to the North Island. Mr Frank intends “doing” New Zealand from a photographic point of view, and his seven cameras should provide a rare collection, the best of which will be displayed in Melbourne. Nil- Frank was born in Nelson, his parents being among the first pioneers to arrive in the settlement in 1843. He attended St. Mary’s school for eight years, and in 1888, after a period of Court work on the West Coast and a short stay with the "Lyttelton Times,” he transferred to Melbourne where he has been a member of the staff of the paper “Table Talk” for 40 years. Mr Frank considers Nelson has made ' great advancement since his last visit ten years ago.