HOLIDAY TRIP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 245, 17 October 1933, Page 7

HOLIDAY TRIP.

BY 'PLANE TO AUSTRALIA. (Received 11 a.m.) KARACHI, October 10. Tho Spartan air cruiser, Faithful City, chartered by Mr. W. P. Crawford Greene, M.P. (Con., Worcester), a native of New South Wales, for a leisurely trip to Australia, arrived here after 5J days from London. Mr. Lynch Blanc, a former Australian National Airways pilot, is in charge, and Mr. Greene is accompanied by an old friend from New South Wales, a Mr. Abbot.

ULM AT CALCUTTA. j- " STEADY PROGRESS MADE. CALCUTTA, October 16. Mr. C. T. P. Ulm, Captain P. G. Taylor, Mr. G. U. Allen and Mr. John Edwards, wireless operator, who left Feltham, Middlesex, for Australia, at 10.30 p.m. on Friday, in the monoplane Faith in Australia arrived at Calcutta at 11.30 a.m. to-day. WOMAN KILLED. RABAUL AEROPLANE CRASH. RABAUL, October 16. An aeroplane, owned by the Rabaul Airways Syndicate, crashed at Kokopo, New Ireland. Mus. Graham Mirfield, a popular member of the Rabaul European circle, was killed. Her husband was i seriously injured. The pilot, Captain W. Duncan, formerly of the Royal Air Force, was slightly injured.

KNOWN IN GISBORNE.

VICTIMS OF AIR TRAGEDY. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) GISBORNE, this day. Mr. and Mrs. Graham Mirfield visited Gisborne on their honeymoon early in the present year, the bridegroom being a son of a'local architect. Mrs. Mirfield was the daughter of a well-known Rabaul trader and was possessed of a sparkling personality which won her immediate popularity among the wide circle of her husband's friends. - Mr. Graham Mirfield went to Rabaul as engineer for Carpenters, Ltd., later becoming manager of the firm's factories. Ho rucent'v tooi bj> land.