Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 34

B-4 Honolulu, Dec. 19, 1965 THE SUNDAY STAR-BULLETIN ADVERTISER Draws New Zealand Closer Ag nm I 1 1 1 flit1 ''US I 2a a I A. A Pan Am Inaugural Flight touches down at Papeete and musicians and dancers come out to greet the guests I 4 Visitor at sphinx and pyramid memorial at Kuringai Chase near Sydney. The wonder world Down Under that once was remote as a star is now as near as your nearest jet-age airfield. Pan American World Airways recently inaugurated two new jet routes across the South Pacific: Los Angeles-Tahiti-Auckland and return; and West Coast-Honolulu-Fiji-Auckland-Sydney, and return.

The flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, via Honolulu, takes 19V4 hours. What permitted the new swings across the Pacific was the opening of the new $30 million jet-age airport at Man-gere, 18 miles south of Auckland, New Zealand's biggest city. New Zealand is an enchanting place, which lies squarely along the tourist and trade routes of the South Pacific. The country is about the size of Colorado. There are two main islands stretching about a 1,000 miles.

It is a land of breathtaking beauty hundreds of sharp-ribbed mountains mantled with snow; well-tended farms, the grass green as jade (they drop superphosphates from the air to keep the grass well fertilized). XL. filfc TOW. "It looks like one vast country ciud irom ine an, visitor said. New Zealand is the home of 180,000 Maoris, kinfolk of the Hawaiians.

It's a new country to visit with great fishing (from Lake Taupo alone on North Island fishermen take 500 tons of rainbow and brown trout every year) and great hunting. (All photos but the aerial of Auckland, taken by Advertiser photographer Takashi Umeda.) tll "Ti 5-l MR-'1 iff Mi j.r.on-i: IS' a 18-inch rainbow trout a native of California who has found a home and thrives in New Zealand. Mayor Blaisdell looks over New Zealand's geothermal project at Wairakel. In Rotorua, heart of "Maori land," a woman stands outside a native house. A WT- l' i A 2 -1 Ur 5: "i '4; JA 7 try Aerial view of Auckland, a city of 520,000, 4.404 air miles from Honolulu.

Siliolph, manager of Pan Am New Zealand, inspects Putaruru flower bed..