GREAT FLIGHT ENDED
THE CENTAURUS RETURNS THIRTY-THOUSAND MILES COVERED (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, February 23. (Received February 24, at 11 a.m.) Several hours earlier than she was expected the Hying boat Centaurus reached Southampton on her return from New Zealand. Since the flying boat left Southampton on December 3 she has flown 30,000 miles, surveying a route for regular flying boat services between Southampton and Sydney, which are to start early this summer, and for an extended air mail route from Sydney to Auckland, which is expected to be established a year later. MAY BE DELAY TILL 1939 NO TEMPORARY LAND PLANE SERVICE. MELBOURNE, February 24. (Received February 24, at 1.30 p.m.) Following statements by New Zealand commercial pilots that there was no possibility of a transtasman flying boat service within two years, Mr H. V. Thorby (Minister of Defence) admitted that the hew boats designed for the service might not be ready before 1939.- There would be no services until these were ready. There was no jpossibility of the Government co-operating ■ with New Zealand to establish a temporary landplane service.
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Evening Star, Issue 22891, 24 February 1938, Page 13
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185GREAT FLIGHT ENDED Evening Star, Issue 22891, 24 February 1938, Page 13
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