FLIGHTS TO DOMINION

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 49, 26 August 1939, Page 24

FLIGHTS TO DOMINION

THE LAST STAGES

CLIPPER AND AOTEAROA

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, August 25.

With the Tasman flying-boat Aotearoa now in Australia and the PanAmerican Airways Boeing clipper at Canton Island, two ocean air services are approaching their junction at Auckland.

Advice from the commander of the Aotearoa, Captain Burgess, suggests that the flying-boat will undertake the final section of her delivery flight across the Tasman on Monday, while, if Pan-American plans are maintained, the clipper will reach Auckland on Tuesday*

On the second stage of her Pacific flight the California Clipper left Honolulu according to schedule at 3.35 a.m. today (New Zealand time). Advice received by the Pan-American radio station at Auckland tonight stated that the machine landed at the newlyestablished base at Canton Island at 4.20 p.m. (Nev Zealand time).

Though over the unsurveyed section of the new route the trip was uneventful, provision is made in the tentative schedule of the clipper for a full day's lay-over at Canton Island, where United States Government and company observers on board the clipper will undoubtedly make a thorough I examination of the new base facilities. The next stage of the flight is to Noumea, from where the final hop to Auckland will probably be undertaken' on Tuesday. Nine days out from Southampton, the Aotearoa arrived at Darwin according to schedule late on Thursday afternoon, with seven of the ten stages ofher flight completed. She will now proceed to Townsville, and from there to Sydney. The Aotearoa is expected to leave Sydney for Auckland on Monday, and will probably continue to Suva.