AVIATION
BUTLER’S PROGRESS.
[by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] BATAVIA, November 8. Butler arrived here at 6.10 o’clock yesterday from Singapore, the joUrney taking 5 hours 35 minutes. Butler left here at 5 o’clock this morning for Koepang. LONDON—CAPE SERVICE. LONDON, November 8. The Imperial Airways has ordered eight four-engined Armstrong Whitworth monoplanes, capable of 145 miles an hour, for the London —Cape route. The machines will be especially constructed for tropics ‘equipment, including ice chests. / AUCKLAND MISHAPS. [special to “stab.”] AUCKLAND, November 9. The picnic organised by the Auckland Aero Club at Harrisville near Tuakau on Saturday, which at the outset promised to be a remarkable success, was marred by a series of mishaps to three of the four club aeroplanes. As a result two of the Moths (Pilots T. Philcox and Miss G. M. Peacock) could not be flown and had to be dismantled and brought back to Mangere by motor lorrv, while the third, (Pilot P. C. Lewis; was out of commission for an hour, while grovul engineers carried out temporary cpairs to a damaged wing.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1931, Page 5
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