AIR MAIL SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 105, 27 January 1933, Page 8

AIR MAIL SERVICE

Australia and England SIR CHARLES TO TENDER By Telegraph.— Press Association Tauranga, Jan. 26. At a gathering arranged by the Tauranga Aero Club last night, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith stated that it was bls intention to put in a tender for an English mail service this year. Sir Charles said he would first tender to fly mails between Australia and England, and vice versa, in a period of two weeks, with the ultimate object of cutting down the time to eight or ten days. At the same gathering,' Sir Charles met Mrs. H. B. Hewlett, who claims to be the first certificated woman pilot in the world. She got her ticket in 1910, and instructed many men' who later became flying aces at the front. Yesterday Sir Charles took up nineteen full loads of joy-riders. The Southern Cross will arrive at Auckland to-morrow, when Sir Charles Kingsford Smith will make stage appearances in conjunction with . the screening of a flying picture. With him will fly the remaining members of the trans-Tasman crew, Mr. Jack Percival, jun., and Mr. John Stannage. Mr. Wilfrid Kingsford Smith, the business manager, and staff will also accompany him. The engines of tlie Southern Cross will probably be overhauled at Christchurch before preparations for the flight back to Australia from Ninety Mile Beach.