FLYING NEWS
ON TAIL OF SOUTHERLY
DUN EDI N-GHR IST CHURCH PLANE DOES 5200 M.P.H.!
(Press Association)
CHRISTCHURCH, July 3
Swept Tip from Dunedin on (.he tad of a southerly “buster,” air tr.'a>vc flers from Dunedin this morning made the trip at 200 mite an hour. The al'Tlino distance is 200 miles, and the Union Airways machine Karoro made it i'n 62 minutes,, leaving Dunedin at 8.20 «.m. and landing here at 0.22 a.m.
When the passengers were delivered at their hotels, breakfast was still though they, had all breakfasted at quite a normal hour in the southern efity. The same gale that helped the 'aeroplane retarded the inter-island is team er Marama. The vessel had a fine trp as fair as Lyttelton Head's, hut the wind was so focussed by the hills around the harbour that she could not berth til 8.45- o’clock, though she had been outside the moles at 7 o’clock. The Railways Department did not hold back the south express as there is a .second express at noon on Fridays.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12905, 4 July 1936, Page 7
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