The Government Tourist Agent at Christehurch has received a telegram to the effect that a motor car, with four passengers, had made the trip from Hokitika to the Franz Josef Glaeier. This is the first occasion on which a motor car has done the trip on its own power. A small car went through previously, 'but had to be towed through the small rivers, which are unbiidge.l.' In suitable weather this brings the Fran/. Josef I within two days' travel of Ohristehurch,
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1915, Page 5
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82Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1915, Page 5
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