VISITORS FROM AMERICA

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23111, 29 August 1940, Page 6

VISITORS FROM AMERICA

— —♦ STATE DINNER TO BE HELD AT AUCKLAND (PfIKSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, August 28. With a party of distinguished Americans on board the Pan American Airways’ American Clipper will arrive from Noumea about 2.30 p.m. to-mor-row. The clipper completed the third stage of the journey from San Francisco to-day, leaving Canton Island at 5.38 a.m. (New Zealand time) and reaching Noumea at 5.30 p.m. (New Zealand time). Because of an alteration to arrangements, all 14 of the American passengers will now come to New Zealand. Originally it was intended that seven would travel from Noumea to Sydney by yacht, while the other seven would accompany the clipper to Aucklaiid. On arrival ■ the Americans will bo welcomed by an official party, headed by the Minister for Lands (the Hon. F. Langstone), who is expected from Wellington by train in the morning. A State dinner, at which Mr Langstone will preside, will be held at the Grand Hotel in the evening. To celebrate the first anniversary of the arrival in Auckland of the flyingboat Aotearoa on August 28, 1939, five members of the engineering staff oi Tasman Empire Airways held a reunion dinner to-night. It was decided that a similar reunion should be held every year in the same hotel where members of the first crew were' accommodated and, welcomed on their arrival. '