FLIGHT OVER TASMAN.
ANOTHER SCHEME UNDER WAY
MODERN MACHINE WANTED
Independent of the Auckland movement steps have been taken by a number of private citizens throughout the Dominion to subscribe a sum of money with, a view to purehas»'.ng one of the most modern aeroplanes in which an attempt will be made, at a suitable time, to cross the Tasman Sea from Australia to New Zealand. Those in Wellington associated with the movement: are disinclined at the moment to release cletVls for publiccation, but '( is understood on good authority, the total of the amounts subscribed to date is not very far short of the sum considered necessary for the purchase of the machine. At all events the matter has so far developed that it is expected to bo fin nil sed. very shortly, so that tho flight can bo arranged at an early dale.
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Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1202, 12 September 1927, Page 4
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