SUNDAY FLIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 142, 18 June 1934, Page 7

SUNDAY FLIGHT.

PASTOR PROTESTS. MISS BATTEN BLAMED. "Public Nuisance" of Noise of 'Planes Over Church. SUNDAY SILENCE DISTURBED. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 1 p.m.) SYDNEY, thi 3 day. The Rev. Herbert Green, of Hamilton (a suburb of Newcastle) Methodist Church, sent Miss Jean Batten a letter reading, in part, as follows:— "With all the authority and responsibility of my office, I wish to protest against a public nuisance which the noise of yom- machines flying low over our, churches on Sunday last was to those of us who desired the silence of Sunday for communication with 'the unseen presence' you are reported to have felt on your great overseas flight." It is understood that Miss Batten has not received the letter yet. A representative of Northern Airways, Ltd., stated that Mr. Green had apparently written under a misapprehension. Miss Batten was in no way associated with the company and had" nothing to do with any flights conducted by ° the company last Sunday. Mr. Green told the "Sydney Morning Herald" Newcastle representative that he was not making a personal attack. His feeling was that the Church must not allow the day of rest it had won for the workers to be commercialised. A Brisbane message states that Miss Batten arrived there from Sydney, stopping at Newcastle and Coffs* Harbour en ioute.