AVIATION

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 September 1933, Page 7

AVIATION

MRS MOLLISON’S HOPE. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] -TORONTO, September 16. Mrs Amy Mollison said in an interview: “Perhaps you think me funny, but unless I can get adventure, I do not want to live. I shall fly until 1 die, and I hope I shall die flying.” She expressed doubt about her ability to undertake a long distance record attempt, adding: “The season is very late, and we are not looking for suicide.”

SURGEON’S RUSH TRIP LONDON, September 17. Surgeon H. S. Souttar, accompanied by Doctor J. H. Challis, and piloted by Neville Stack, will leave London to-day, carrying his own nitro-oxygen and surgical instruments, for ah urgent operation at Bombay, on a woman relative of the Maharajah of Nepal. The party hope to reach Bombay in six days.

' HINKLER MEMORIAL. . LONDON, September 17. The. Arezzo monument to Hinkler was unveiled at Passdella Vachie, at an altitude of 3200 feet, designed by the architect Pelleri, in the form of a seven-foot column, having lictors and fasces crossed by the Roman eagle in flight', and inscribed “To the long distance flier. Herbert Hinkler, who fell here 8/1/XI,” the last figures standing for the eleventh year of thq Fascist Era. A distinguished assemblage included Colonel Stevens, British Military Attache at Rome.

AREZZO. September 17. At the Hinkler memorial ceremony, Col. Stevens and Mr Pearkes addressed the assembly, expressing the thanks of the British and Australian Governments, and the Hinkler family. Two aeroplanes from Arezzo airport circled during the ceremony. Messrs Stevens and Pearkes visited the Fascist home, Strada, where the propeller of Hinkler’s machine is preserved, and lengthily talked with the charcoal burners who first discovered the wrecked machine.