AVIATION

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1929, Page 7

AVIATION

SOUTHERN CROSS. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, March 15. The Southern Cross hop-off will probably be delayed owing to heavy rain yesterday and to-day, soaking the Richmond aerodrome, which will have to dry before' the big machine with the heavy petrol load, can take off. LONDON-CAPE SERVICE. LONDON. March 14. The “Daily Telegraph’s” aviation editor explains that both aeroplanes and flying boats will be used in the London to Cape Town air service. Flying boats will probably be employed up the Nile as far as Rissmu. It is unlikely that the service will be inaugurated until 1930. The service will be run by the Imperial Airways in conjunction with Sir A. Cobham and the Blackburn air lines. RABAUL DISTURBANCES RABAUL, March 15. Brigadier General Griffiths, who recently inquired into the native disorders at Rabaul, exonerates the police heads and the missionaries. His report declares the original cause of the trouble was the talk of foreign sailors with natives, thus causing strife. They also condemn the jeers of the sailors w r ho organised a strike, with Sumsuma' and Rams as leaders. There is not a tittle of evidence to support the statement that the cause of the strife was much deeper-seated or more involved.