CALL AT DARWIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 37, 13 February 1937, Page 9

CALL AT DARWIN.

U.S. Airwoman's Dash Round The World by 'Plane.

CROSSING THREE OCEANS. NEW YORK, February 12. Mrs. Amelia Earliart Putnam informed a representative of the Australian Associated Press that she will fly to Australia, departing early in March from Oakland.' The route will be via Honolulu and Howland Island, front where she will fly to Lao, New Guinea, and Darwin. Mrs. Putnam will then proceed by the usual Imperial Airways route to India. From there she will fly to Dakar, French West Africa, crossing the Atlantic to Natal, Brazil. She will return to the United States via Mexico, and the flight will conclude at Miami.

Captain Manning, a veteran merchant marine officer, will net as Mrs. Putnam's navigator across the Pacific and will accompany her as far as Australia.

KING TO GIVE CUP,

ANNUAL AERIAL DERBY. British Official Wirnless. RUGBY, February 12. The King has notified the Royal Aero Club of his desire to give a cup each year for the King's Cup air race, inaugurated ill 1022 by King George V. To mark the Coronation Year, Lord Wakefield will offer prizes for this race of £2000 instead of £1000.

U.S. AIR PASSENGERS.

OVER A MILLION LAST YEAR.

WASHINGTON, February 12,

The Director of Aeronautics, Mr. E. L. Vidal, states that commercial air lines in the United States carried 1,020,000 passengers in 1030, an increase of 73 per cent on the figures for 1935. Twenty-one air Hues are in operation.

TO DEFEND LONDON,

BALLOONS FROM BEDFORD,

British Odiciiil Wireless. RUGBY, February 12. Plans have been made by the Air Ministry for the manufacture at the Royal Airship Works, Cnrdingtou, near Bedford, of a certain number of balloons for use ill balloon barrages, which will form part of tho air defence of London.

Since the construction of airships was discontinued at Cardington, tho establishment there has been maintained on a skeleton basis.

AIR'S SUPREMACY.

VITAL LESSON OP SINGAPORE. LONDON, February 12. The recent air and naval manoeuvres at Singapore gave overwhelming evidence of the advantage of overseas air patrols, reports the correspondent there of the "Daily Mail." This lesson, ho adds, is supremely important to the strategic defence of Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, which, equipped with aircraft, will be less vulnerable than in the past.