Chair for Hillary

When New Zealand's most famous New Zealander, Sir Edmund Hillary, rests up at home in Auckland it is usually in the famous Everest chair which was presented to him by Mr George Emms, of Gisborne. Looks now as if Sir Edmund, when he relaxes in his lonely Antarctica cabin after a tough day in the eternal snows of the south, will feel more at home than he otherwise might, for Mr Emms has now made him a special lightweight chair, designed to fold up for transportation. It has an aluminium frame, ski type runners, brown fur-cloth cowering, sponge rubber upholstery, and a stool with compartment for books, etc. The chair will go south with the New Zealand Antarctica Expedition next summer. Lloyd Cornish

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