ANY JOHNSON’S FAREWELL

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 June 1930, Page 7

ANY JOHNSON’S FAREWELL

NEED FOR LONG REST RETURN VISIT PROMISED [BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. June 14, 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 13. Amy Johnson said goodbye to Sydney to-day. She arrives at Canberra to-morrow, piloted by Major De. Haviland, lunches with the Prime Minister and Ministers, and arrives at Melbourne on Monday. Amy’s parting message was: I can never forget the marvellous crowds, the hospitality and the wonderful gifts bestowed upon me. I’m just done up. My brain refused to work. I’m just about breaking down. I hope to return to Sydney for the opening of your colossal harbour bridge two years hence.

Referring to the Daily Mail contract, she said her remuneration was £lO,000, and no more. “I expect I shall have to earn every penny of it.”

DAILY FERVENT PRAYER.

SYDNEY, May 31.

In response to an invitation from the W.C.T.U./Miss Amy Johnson this morning paid a visit to the Union, in conference in the Albert-street Methodist Church, where she was received with the fervent singing of the Doxology. Miss Johnson, who received an ovation as she rose to respond,,said: “I thank you very much for the welcome. It is just marvellous. I think it most appropriate in this church to say a word of thanks for my safe journey to Australia. I started off with the prayers of my people, and each day as I hopped off I said, ‘Please dear God, see me safely through to-day.’ It is wonderful. If you have any doubt of the existence of somebody watching over you, you have only to pass through some danger. Then you realise that a higher power is guarding you. lam absolutely convinced of it. I know I have been brought through by someone who wanted me to reach here safely, and I know I shall get back safely. I feel it. I just know it. “Let me tell you of something touch ing that happened when I was crossing the Java Sea. I was in the midst of rainstorms, and could find no opening so that I might get direction. I could not see which way to go. I was flying close to the water, and did not know at what moment I might strike it. Just at the moment when I felt it impossible to go in any direction I uttered a fervent prayer. I was looking round, and it was most marvellous. I was flying round and round when a break in the clouds occurred, and I saw a double rainbow around me. I am sure it was a happy manifestation. lam sure it was somebody looking over me.”

WELLINGTON’S PLANE.

WELLINGTON, June 14.

A third plane, an all metal de Haviland Moth, has been added to Wellington’s local fleet. Over fifty civil aircraft are now registered in New Zealand. ANOTHER FAST TRIP WELLINGTON, June 13. Captain Stedman left Christchurch in a new Moth plane at nine forty-five a.m. to-day, and he arrived at Rongotai areodrome at eleven-forty a.m. A following wind helped make his trip unusually fast. It usually takes three and a-half hours. Mr. Drake, Chief Traffic Inspector for Wellington City Council, was a passenger.