NEARING N.Z.

Grey River Argus, 26 August 1939, Page 8

NEARING N.Z.

THE FLYING-BOATS Clipper at Canton Island aotearoa at darwin (Per Press Association]. AUCKLAND, August 25. With the Tasman flying-boat Aotearoa now in Australia and the PanAmerican Airways Boeing clipper at Canton Island, two ocean air services are approaching their junction at Auckland. Advice from the Commander- of the Aotearoa Captain Burgess suggests that the flying-boa will undertake the final section o her delivery flight across the Tasman on Monday, while if the Pan-Ameri-can plans are maintained, the clipper will reach Auckland on Tuesday. On the second stage of her Pacific flight, the California Clipper lelt Honolulu according to schedule at 3.35 a.m. to-day, New Zealand time. Advice received by the Pan-American radio station at Auckland to-night stated the machine had landed at the newly-established base at Canton Island at 4.20 p.m., New Zealand time. Although over the unsurveyed section of the new route the trip was uneventful, provision, is made in the tentative schedule of the Clipper for a full day’s lay-over at Canton Island, where the United States Government and the company observers on board the Clipper will undoubtedly make a thorough examination of the new base facilities. The next stage of the flight is to Noumea, from where the final hop to Auckland will probably be undertaken on Tuesday. Nine days out from Southampton, the Aotearoa arrived at. Darwin, according to schedule, late on Thursday afternoon. With seven of the ten stages of her flight completed, she wifi now proceed to Townsville and from there to Sydney.

AOTEAROA AT DARWIN. DARWIN, August 25. The Aotearoa arrived, after a nine days’ night from London.