TASMAN FLIERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 October 1928, Page 5

TASMAN FLIERS

GATHERING AT BLENHEIM

(Press Association.)

BLENHEIM, October 1. Advice has been received from Major Wilkes that he would arrive at Blenheim to-morrow, accompanied by Sir John Salmond and Squadron Leader Drummond. Captain Findlay, Mr I ■ R. Climie, and Mr Crozier, of the Canterbury Aero Club, arrived at Blenheim this afternoon in the De Haviland 50 plane and landed at the Southern Cross Aerodrome. The latest weather reports state that the weather is still unfavourable in the Tasman Sea. There is no prospect of the fliers leaving before Thursday. Dr E. Kidson, Government Meteorologist, to-day . advised Squadron Leader Kingsford Smith that a rathei intense depression was located over the Western Tasman Sea. The pressure at Hobart had fallen as low as 29.15 inches at 3 p.m. on Sunday, so that there was no prospect of a start on Tuesday morning. LATEST WEATHER REPORT WELLINGTON, Oct. 2. Dr. Kidson advises that there is an intense depression covering the Tasman. Disturbed conditions are indicated by a wireless report from Waiotapu at 9 a.m., in latitude forty south longitude IG3 east. When the aviators rang Dr. Kidson at twelve thirty, he gave the following reply: “Conditions are still stormy in the Tasman, with strong north to north-west winds. No start will be possible to-morrow. Cannot judge of further possibilities until the remainder of the Australian reports are received, but yesterday’s reports were not unfavourable to the development of fair conditions in a few' days.”

DUTCH INDIES SERVICE. AMSTERDAM, October 2. A mail plane from Holland arrived at Ba(avia, after eleven days’ trip. 300 MILES AN HOUR (Reed. October 2, 10 a.m.) LONDON, October 1. Darcy Grey, during a test flight in connection with the attempt to break the world’s speed record, exceeded three hundred miles per hour, the highest speed attained in Britain. He covered the Calshot course four times at a height of four thousand feet. Fie Hew over Southampton remaining in ’the air 25 minutes.