He Doesn't Like Us!

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 9, 8 September 1933, Page 15

He Doesn't Like Us!

Zane Grey Discusses N.Z. with Newspapermen PROM the American correspondent of the "Radio Record" comes the following statement, clipped from the columns of the "Los Angeles Times": "New Zealand is a good place for Americans to stay away from at present, according to Zane Grey, author and ‘champion fisherman, who returned late yesterday to Los Angeles, following a nine months’ cruise in the South Seas. "+‘Ahout seven out of every ten men in New Zealand are

jobless,’ he said, ‘and many blame their economic difficulties upon Uncle Sam’s failure to cancel the war debts and the cheapening of the dollar. Americans may be popular somewhere, but that somewhere is not New Zealand.’ : "The novelist counts his .expedition a success for at least three reasons, two of a piscatorial and one of a nautical nature. The principal triumph was his capture after a threehour battle of a 900-pound silver marlin swordfish in the waters of Tahiti. After weeks of patient effort he also succeeded in landing a 510-pound Mako shark. The cruise also was notable, Grey revealed, in that his new fishing boat, the Frangipani, performed to perfection. "Motion pictures of the fishing exploits will be used in a picture of the South Seas that is to be produced by Romer Grey, the sportsman’s son,"