SMITH’S JOB

Grey River Argus, 24 April 1931, Page 5

SMITH’S JOB

( TO HANDLE MAILS 1 Fast Going (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) BRISBANE, April 23. The Southern Cross arrived’ at Cion curry, two hours ahead of schedule. (Received April 23 at 7.5 p.m;) SYDNEY. April 22. The Southern Cross arrived at Dar win at 2.40 o'clock this ’•-afternoonI ANOTHER AIRWAYS PLANE CRASHES. LONDON, April 22. The triple-engined twenty seater Im peria] Airways liner “City of. Edin l<urgh ’ ’ crashed at Croydon aerodrome caught fire and was destroyed. The pilot was uninjured. A FAST 400 MILES. iRIfGBY, April 22. I Captain Frank (‘ r Wireless?.’’) Hawkcf known as ‘‘the human bullet,’’ set out from Heaton Aerodrome early to-day io f’y to Rome and back in one day. He made a forced lauding when 150 kilometres, s.out.h o£ Paris, to-night. He was not injured, and will complete the flight to-morrow. Hr reached Rome about noon. He averaged .174 miles an hour, and covered 900’ miles to Rome in 32.2 minuter. His . landing on the return flight. >yas dii.eLtQ-.lack of petrol. AVIATRIX ARRESTED. yANCQUy } ER b iApril 22. message frohk Wiinlsor (Ontario) states that ; Lady AXtU'y iteath has bc-. n arrested: *as tho result of an altercation in ini auto with her seefetary, as to whom-.should drive. She was grunted hajj on. a charge of intoxication. She had been ’t he Truest a4‘ two dinner parPLANE USES HEAVY OIL. . April 22. There was an ipjportanl sfage i R the cvo'.ution of air transport when •lhe Juno Fourth, an aeroplane driven by heavy motar oil, was tried out successfully after twenty years’ research at the Junkers’ laboratory. The machine has- a six-cylinder engine of 720 horse power, and increases its flying range by 47 percent, and the loading capacity by 1,0.0 per cent., while <V>st o’f/the Diesel engine is 65 per cent, below that of a petrol engin ■. . One of the Iris flying boats which left England on March 24, on a flight to Egvpt and back. rcturjieJ to .Plymouth to-day. The second boat is still at Saint Nazarene.

Smith’s Big Undertaking

SHELL COY.’S ADVICE. Mr J. B. Paton. West Coast representative of the Shell Coy., has received from his company details of the flights that are being made by A’.rCommodore Kingsford Smith, in connection with the crash at Koepang of the Imperial Airways plan? “City of Cairo,” which was bringing 4he first air mail to Australia. The message, which was sent from the Melbourne branch of the Shell Coy., states: — “In connection with the air mails, Kingsford Smith left Sydney on Tuesday to pick up th? mails of the crashed Imperial Airways machine at Koepang. He reached Darwin •on Thursday and flies to Koepang to-day (Friday). He will return to Darwin on Friday afternoon. Kingsford Smith -Jvill carry the outgoing English mail next week, aS far as Akyab. He is using Shell spirit th rough out. ’ ’ -