AMY JOHNSON

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 June 1930, Page 9

AMY JOHNSON

WELCOME AT MELBOURNE

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. MELBOURNE, June 16. Miss Amy Johnson arrived at the Moonee Valley Racecourse to-day in a Moth aeroplane. She was a couple of hours late. The De Haviland plane which had carried her became lost, in blinding rain, and mist, and it was unable to land. She was then flown to Laverton, and there transferred to a Moth.

A crowd of 15,000 gave her a rousing welcome.

PARENTS’ GRATIFICATION.

NEW YORK, June 15

Foreign Rotarians have arrived here on the Caronia to attend the Rotary Convention at Chicago from June 23 to July 27. Among them were Miss Amy Johnson’s family, Mr and Mrs J. W. Johnson, and their daughter, Mollie.

Mr Johnson has x apparently been the most important man aboard, and very popular. He said he had been confident that, his daughter would attain her purpose. He said: “She has always been a determined girl. She deserves everything she may get by her daring feat. We are all very proud of her. It has been very gratifying to hear all the pleasant things that have been said about Amy on the voyage over, and on our arrival here. We will tell her all about it when she comes home.” He stated that he arid Mrs Johnson expect to meet Amy on July 1G at Marseilles.

GLIDING DEMONSTRATION

LONDON, June 15

Robert Kronefeld, the Austrian gliding ace, demonstrated for the British Gliding Association near Lewes. He flew in a straight line along the South Downs, landing near Portsmouth, 70 miles away, in three hours. Mr Gordon England (the Chairman of the Gliding Association) describes this achievement as marvellous, and one proving that Britain is an ideal country for gliding.