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HILO, Hawaii, Feb. 23 » When the March of Time film on Mauna Kea skiing comes to Hawaii, island people will be able to see their friends perform skiing feats amid snow glistening in the sunshine.
For in the film will beseen L.W. Bryan, assistant forester on the Big Island; Gordon H. Scruton, executive secretary of the Hilo Chamber of Commerce, and Dudley Lewis and Harold Dillingham Jr. of Honolulu, who together with Charles W. Herbert, March of Time cameraman, and his assistant climbed Mauna Kea on Sunday to make the skiing pictures.
Others who made the trip were George Armitage, executive secretary of the Hawaii Tourist bureau; Arthur Robinson, tourist bureau photographer, who took movies and still pictures of the skiing scenes; Jack Bryan, young son of Mr. and Mrs. L.W. Bryan; Manual P. Mentel, Flavius Peter and Jon Sui Fook Tan, all of Hilo.
The fine weather and the newly fallen snow were responsible for the success of the expedition and many good shots were taken.
Besides taking pictures of skiing, the group reached the highest point which had been attained by any party recently. They went up to the 12,035 foot elevation which is the top of one of the highest hills on Mauna Kea.
They named this point Pua Holua after the board and ti-leaf skiing which the Hawaiians enjoyed in the old days.
The party made the trip by horseback from Humuula Sunday at 7:30 a.m. and left their horses at the point where the snow became deep.
At 9:40 a.m. they were already taking skiing pictures.
The party in its return trip to Humuula ran into a rain and hailstorm.
All reached home safely Sunday night.
Mr. Bryan, under whose direction the road and trail up Mauna Kea and the rest house at Hale Pohaku were built, said today that at least 150 people visited the snow regions on Mauna Kea over the weekend and holiday.
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