ROUND WORLD FLYERS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 8, 9 July 1931, Page 9

ROUND WORLD FLYERS

FUTURE PLANS UNSETTLED

GATTY, AND AUSTRALIA

NEW YOKE, 7th July,

During an interview, the round-the-world aviator, Harold Gatty, stated that ho and Wiley Post had no immediate plans for the future. He addtd: "Wo arc just waiting to sea what develops." He admitted, however, "I feel homesick sometimes," and said that he hopes to visit Australia in the near future. Gatty has received the following message from Mr. J. C. M'Phee, Prime Minister of Tasmania:—"On behalf of the Government and people of Tasmania I congratulate you on your epic achievement." Harold C. Gatty, who acted as navigator on the long flight, is a Tasnianian, and the son of Mr. J. Gatty, Town Clerk of Richmond. Leaving school, he joined the Jervis Bay Naval College, and 'afterwards went into the service of the Patrick Steamship Company, Sydney, becoming a second mate. Then he came to New Zealand and joined the Union Company, serving on many vessels in their fleet in. New Zealand waters. Leaving the Union Company he went to America and secured a position as the second mate on a millionaire's private yacht. A wireless message broadcast from Sydney last night and picked up by Mr. E. Leslie JoJnes stated that there was no trace of the missiug airman. Pilot J. L. Trist, of the New Guinea Airways, Ltd., who has been missing since May last. It has been reported that he was killed by natives. The Minister of Defence stated that a wireless message from the Administrator reported no sign of tho missing flyer, An earlier report intimating the discovery of the airman said that he had come down in jungle inhabited by natives; aiid the natives said tho white man tried to speak pigeon English The natives could not understand tho airman, and clubbed and speared him to death.