GOVERNMENT THANKED
MESSAGE FROM AIRMEN The Prime Minister (the ' Jit. Hon. J. G. Coates) yesterday received the following messages from the aviators in reply to his telegrams of congratulation:— Wo desire to thank you, the Government, and the citizens of New | Zealand for your telegram congratulating us. If our self-appointed task of demonstrating the safety and utility of long distances has met with success we aro happy. Through us, the Prime Minister, the Governor, and the people of Australia send greetings, and we carry, per mail, a letter to you from Mr. Bruce, which we will deliver in Wellington in a few days. Wo gratefully thank yourself and the Government for the magniliI cent grant of £2000, and desire to assure you that such money will enable us to conduct further experimental flights, which wo aro hopeful I will bo of value to Empire aviation. Kingsford Smith and Ulm. My sincere thanks to you, sir, and the people of New Zealand for your very kind message of welcome.— M'Williams.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 55, 14 September 1928, Page 10
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