SHOULDER HIGH

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

SHOULDER HIGH

THE AVIATORS' SMILES SIDE-STEPPING THE CROWD (From "The Post's" Representative.) CHRISTCHUECH, This Day. Shortly after 9 o'clock the Southern Cross and four escorting airplanes were seen from the aerodrome, flying south, and they were overhead before 9.20. Kingsford Smith made a good landing after several times encircling the aerodrome at a low altitude, amid tremendous cheers from a crowd of many thousands. The airplane stopped not quite at the point intended by official programme, and the crowd quickly broke tho barriers at a weak spot in the defences, so that the airplano was surrounded by the crowd even before

gone to Christchurch. The melee was considerable, and there were some feminine faintings. The escorting 'planes met the Southern Cross about thirty miles to the northward, and they all arrived in splendid formation, with the big airplane in the middle. Those who sought early, to return to the city clashed with traffic still bound to tho aerodrome, and cars both ways woro delayed; in fact, tfainloads of people were arriving long after the aviators had landed and left, as tho country contingent was Bomewhat late; still, they saw the airplane.