SWOOPING TO CONQUER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 122, 26 May 1930, Page 6

SWOOPING TO CONQUER.

This has been a great ten days for women. Following the victory of an almost unknown woman golfer over the American champion, we have what golfing fanatics may consider an achievement of lesser importance—the successful flight from England to Australia of Miss Amy Johnson. Women are invading every sphere of activity in which men for so long reigned supreme, and it has been suggested that soon there will be nothing left for men to do except housework. The enthusiasm of the people in Australia is shown by the reception Miss Johnson received on landing at Darwin. This enthusiasm has been shared by the whole Empire, since, as Sir Alan Cobham says, "Miss Johnson has boomed British prestige throughout the world," and everyone admires such pluck. She has also shown what can be done in a small aeroplane, and other women will probably try and emulate her feat, though perhaps on a smaller scale. Miss 'Johnson left the somewhat prosaic occupation of a typiste to undertake the finest flight ever performed by a woman. Some people may think that the experiment was a little foolhardy, but nothing has ever been accomplished in aviation without risk, and the universal interest in her flight, and enthusiasm over her success, show the admiration felt everywhere for the enterprise of this young Yorkshire girl flyer. She has become the Empire's heroine, and everywhere relief will be felt at the news of her safe arrival in Australia. "She swoops to conquer" is a witty headline in an English paper. Miss Johnsons swoop lias conquered hearts as well as space.