IN A BAD STORM

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 53, 11 September 1928, Page 12

IN A BAD STORM

"USED TO THE ROUGH STUFF" (B' Telecraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A two hours storm, in which there was vivid lightning, caused the wireless

the three great propellers had stopped wliizzing. "A remarkably good trip," said Kingsford Smith, as he climbed down out of the airplane. They were then welcomed by Sir Ileatou Rhodes, representing the Government, and Mr. D. G. Sullivan, representing the Labour Party. Only the briefest words of welcome passed, as the crowd surged round. Kingsford Smith and Uhn looked wonderfully fresh and entirely competent. They tried their best to answer everybody, and held a little levee under the now quiet propellers. A mounted constable vainly tried to keep the crowd back, and ladies tried in vain to rlee from the stamping hoofs. The aviators were then shouldered and carried up and down through the crowd, and submitted smilingly to an exhibition that seemed far too strenuous after their exhausting trip. At last they got down to the ground, the crowd was misled into another direc tion, and then it became known that the aviators had slipped into a car and

easy, unless the ground is known to the pilot. Sir Beaton Rhodes will receive the flyers; and Mr. D. Ardell represents the Internal Affairs Department. At the Wigram Aerodrome, Major Wilkes, Director of Air Services, is in general charge. Captain Findlay is O.C. of the aerodrome. Yesterday morning Captain Buckley piloted an" Avro, from which Major Wilkes took photographic views. The weather is lino, but a bit breezy and bumpy. Arrangements were made for a moving picture record of the events in which the Southern Cross is to be the centra) figure, to be taken by a Government cinema operator from an airplane piloted by Captain Buckley. Dawn broke with a promise of another of those many fine days that lately have caused the Christchureb public to doubt the weather prophets; but New Zealand is a bundle of local climates, which individually count little in a general Tasman forecast. Even to-day showers are predicted for the

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