“Big” Fisherman.

Zane Grey Prepares for Northern Hunt.

From Our Own Correspondent Thursday Is., Nov. 25, LOCAL fishing enthusiasts are compar ing notes with a view to giving Zane Grey, who is expected this way next year, the best information regard ing big fish of Torres Strait.

Advices received intimate that the famous deep-sea angler is having an it inerary arranged for him by Mr. E. F.

Pollock, which will begin at Tahiti, or thereabouts, in June, and will take in the New Hebrides, Huon Islands, Mel lish Cay, Willis Islands, Cairns, along the Barrier from Cairns to Cape York, down the Gulf of Carpentaria, through Torres Strait, then into Papuan waters, and across to Java, Singapore, and the Cocos-Keeling Islands. Six weeks or so will be spent on the Barrier Reef a month in the Gulf, a fornight at T.I. and the Gulf, and six weeks in Papuan waters.

The objective is giant fish. Having heard of giant sail fish in the Indian Ocean which are described by a Danish expert as “being like a fleet of schooners, with sails eighteen feet long and ten feet high,” one of which was dragged ashore and weighed three tons the fisherman-author hopes to put up some new records, and incidentally, help to put these waters on the map.

His yacht, the “Fisherman II,” 363 tons, a craft nearly 200 feet long is equipped with seven fishing launches carried on deck: two of these are 34 feet long, fitted with twin screws and the latest thing in wireless telephones for communicating with each other and the parent ship.