FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 16, 20 January 1928, Page 7

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

NO POWER TO STOP IT MOODY'S ARGUMENT (United B mm At»oei»tion<~<*prtitkt) (R4e4We& 20th January, aooa.) SYDNEY, Thli Day, Captain Mdody md Mr. Jolley, the Queensland airmen, aspiring to fly the Tasmati, State that they do not erpecfc any objection to bo raised to their dipt by the aviation authorities. t««y contend that the Federal Gdverriment has no power to prevent tha flight. The Byan monoplane to be ttsed tor tHii flight was originally the projiterty «£ Mf. lionis Seifert, of Palmerston North. Mi1. Setfert iii Novdntber iaflt *«*eiTed a letter froih Oolonel Brinsmgad, Gefttroilct of j!3ivii Aviation id Atiitralia/ stating thai it was hot fieewsary to ob ' tain the ferniisslon of the Civil Afiatldrt Departtaent to tihdeJtSkd i iidfit from Australia to New Zealand, provided that pasgeriger* weie not carried for payment. Captain Melody says tiiat K« fcanndi ririderstand the insiste'riie of M*. 6r«c« on havihg floats fixed to the iriondplihe. "Our speed and petrol euriply are of paramount importance, floats Would retard the travelling fatd by IS miles in hour, White, Bfl ihe 6th« hind their weight would Compel us to «atty less petrol." THB ttIMT ATTSMPTi The editor 6f the "Sydney Morning fiefald" fttites tha* . the statement published iii th*'' Herald*' that «'IM NeW Zealand aviators Hodd arid Mp&* dri^ff, When, the? landed ifl Atistrall«j have Very limited financial fesonrtes" was based on information supplied by Captaili Kight It was pointed ©it By him that additional funds had been iaised in Australia to hit* the «ohoplatie assembled, and that thott t%soii|c^ wefe so glchdei' thifc thd aifmfen cduld not remaift long e»Oß*h in Ahitralla tb permit the rnaehiiie Beinrf thdfoughly tested oii proiori|«d land liffth.