FLYING.- NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12092, 3 November 1933, Page 2

FLYING.- NEWS

■‘SMITHY” FINISHED WITH LONG-DISTANCE FLIGHTS. TASMAN HOP NOT INCLUDED. (U.P.A. by Elec, Tel. Copyright) SYDNEY, Nov. 2. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith statede that he- will compete hi the Melbourne centenary race, and ihen will renounce long-distance flying. He did not regard flying to New Zealand as long-distance flying, as the journey could be made by daylight. He hoped to leave for New Zealand early in January. EMPIRE TRANS-ATLANTIC AIR SERVICE. BASE PROBABLY IN NEWFOUNDLAND. (IT.P.A. by Elec. Tel, Copyright) (Received Nov. 2, 10.5 p.m.) ST. JOHNS, Nov. 2. The Hon. F. C. A. Alder dice, Premier of Newfoundland, to-night intimated that the Governments of Britain, Canada and Newfoundland had reached an agreement 'in regard to the proposed trans-Atlantic air service. The terms could not be disclosed at present, but they were satisfactory to all who had participated in the conference here last summer. He offered no prediction when the service would be established but felt certain that a trans-Atlantic air base would be developed eventually in Newfoundland. The proposed route is said to he from Liverpool by way of northern Scotland, Iceland, Greenland, Labrador and Montreal ,there to link up with the American and Candian cities to the Pacific coast.