TWO HOURS LATE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 141, 17 June 1930, Page 7

TWO HOURS LATE.

Miss Johnson's Pilot Blinded

By Rain.

ARRIVAL AT MELBOURNE

MELBOURNE, June 16,

Miss Amy Johnson arrived at the Moonee Valley racecourse, Melbourne, in a Moth aeroplane two hours late. Tho de Havilland machine in which Miss Johnson left Canberra was lost in blinding rain and mist and the pilot could not land. Tho girl was then flown to Laverton and transferred to the Moth.

A crowd of 15,000 people gave her a rousing welcome.

Miss Amy Johnson enjoys the honour of being .the, first woman to be entertained by Freemasons in Australia, for she was the guest, of the Masonic Club, Sydney. Officers' and members o£ the club were delighted when she told them , that her father is a Mason. Miss Johnson was presented with a cheque for £100. "It is the finest thing ever accomplished by a woman," said the president, Mr. H. Askey, speaking of her flight. "You stand for loyalty to the Empire, and so does Masonry. As long as we have women like you Britons never will be slaves." Miss Johnson expressed her appreciation of the honour paid her. "It was Australia of all countries that I wanted to come to." she told the gathering. "When I get back 1 want to "tell them what a loyal country Australia is, and it will be a lessoa Jo gome of them there, I can feBvJSSSi"