PROPOSED FLIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1930, Page 11

PROPOSED FLIGHT.

ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA. AUCKLAND AVIATOR. FORMER MANGERE RESIDENT. Interest attaches to the 1 proposed flight by iFlying Officer H. L. Piper and Cyril E. Kay, from England, by-reason of tbe fact that the latter is an Aucklander. He is the second son of Mr. David Kay, land and estate agent, of MaSsey Road, Mungcre. Educated at the Devonport and Papatoetoe public ■ schools, and the Seddon Memorial Technical College, Flying officer Kay is only 27 years of age. lie has had a very successful record in the Pioyal Air Force, which he joined in England for a five years' term in July, 1926. His first appointment was to the Training School at Abu-Suir, Egypt, where after nine months lie contracted enteric fever, and was furloughed back to England. In England lie has gone through Sealand, Maunston, Salisbury Military, and Calthrop Navigation Schools, and at present is attached to a division of the Air Force at Catterick. Besides passing several examinations, Flying Officer Kay was recently eleclxd an honorary member of the Royal Meteorological Society of England. Always a keen sport, lie plays golf and Rugby for the Air Force at Home, and will ,be remembered by Auckland yachtsmen as part-owner of the one-design boat Nyria, when she won the Eoss Cup and Burns Cup from Lord Jellicoe in 1924. Prior to leaving Auckland, Flying Officer Kay was employed by the Farmers' Co.op; Auctioneering Co., Ltd. Flying officer H. L. Piper is a member of a welbknown Christchurch family, and met his companion at one of the tying schools in England.