TASMAN FLIGHT.
LANDING AT WIGRAM.
DEFINITELY ANNOUNCED.
NEW ZEALAND OPERATOR
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —BT ELECTBIC TELEOBAPH —COPYRIGHT.)
(Received July 15th, 5.5 p.m.)
SYDNEY, July 15,
Mr XTlm has announced that the aviators have decided to land at Christchurch, at the Wigram Aerodrome, this being the most suitable landing-place in New Zealand.
Mr P. H. McWilliams, superintendent and instructor in wireless to the Union Steam Ship Company, has been selected as the New Zealand wireless operator for the flight to New Zealand. Mr McWilliams is a returned soldier, and has bad experience of wireless work both on board ship and at land stations.
He has been advised to leave for Sydney by the Aorangi, due to sail on Monday.
The date of departure for the Tasinan attempt has not yet been decided.—Australian Press Association.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19363, 16 July 1928, Page 9
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