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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 86, 6 January 1930, Page 2

“Tt might have been worse,” said a woman passenger from the Manuka, philosophically, when spoken to at Owakn, after the wreck. “But not much she added, as an afterthought. She and her husband had left Adelaide with the intention of making an extended tour through New Zealand, but under the circumstances. she explained, they had now no alternative but to return to Australia. Tn addition to losing everything but what thev stood up in, her husbands letter of credit his loose cash, and his cheque bookhad all gone. She personally had the sli-ht consolation of finding her bag floatin ” near the boat, with her letter of credit and other important papers intact.

That young New Zealand was rapidly becoming air-minded is shown by the experience of Mr. G. M. Keys, secretary to the Vocational Gunkmcc Department of the Christchurch Y.M.C.A. A lot of the boys who come to me are keen to get into aviation.” Mr. Keys told a “Sun reporter: “Some of them would miss chances of getting into trades because thev want to wait and see if any more cadetships in the Air Force will be open. One has to sheer them off this ambition very tactfully.”