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Evening Star, Issue 17484, 15 October 1920, Page 6

I " What about a flight from Australia |to New Zealand?" "Frankly, I don't think it will be a hard flight, said Sir Keith Smith at the New Zealand Club's luncheon at Ghristchurch yesterday. "It should not bo hard to fly over from Australia, provided you look after yonr weather. If you have got the weather right for 24 houre, then yon could leave Sydney at 4 o'clock in the morning on a rdachino able to do about 115 miles an hour, and land somewhere in New Zealand under nine hours at the most. It would not be a ' soft snap,' but I wouldn't mind trying myself. But you must have the weather, and the machine must be able to stand up to the strain. I have been ejsked about prize money. Well, if the Government won't give any then some of the big sporting people in New Zealand should each pat up £SO, and make it a £II,OOO flight, jpn could, make it a flight far New ZeaantJ-feorja officers crossing from either aide, but going from land to land. There should be no %fag "bos.l business. If the flight came off it would mean a irentendxjQS-iftt to flyingrin, this, coxxniiy.*