SOUTHERN GROSS
RETURN TO AUSTRALIA
POSSIBLY SATURDAY
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. , The Southern Cross landed at 12.3(> p.m; today from Hawera.. ," The^fuel tanks and fittings left hera when the Dominion tour was com*
meiiced will be reinstalled immediately* Cf the conditions are satisfactoryVtha machine will leave on Friday for the Ninety Mile Beach'.. ■'.- '
Sir Charles' Kiiigsford; Smith said* ha; hoped to hop off 611 the. return-flight for Australia on Saturday ..morning. Besides Captain Taylor andltrl. J. Stannage, .wireless', operator, he will take as 1 passengers. .Mr ; .:' McKays managing director of ' 2Sew'- Zealand Airways, and Mr. Pethybridge, one- of; the Southern' Cross ' mechanics. Sir, Charles said that the aeroplane was in; perfect order and .• required . but.-little; adjustment. _ ' ...-.'
Expressing.appreciation of ~th.e-hospi-t tality extended to him duririg his tour,Sir. Charles saM he .hoped to^'retum next year, and would .'.probably land, again at New Plyinouth. "He appreciated the co-operation' and ■ assistance given him'by the-various- aero clubs,: without -which the touiv would not have* been so" successful. He may return foe a month's holiday with his family later in. the year. ■■■■•-.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 68, 22 March 1933, Page 9
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