FLIGHT POSTPONED.
ACROSS THE TASMAN TRIP. ' CIVIL AUTHORITIES STEP IN. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 12. News has been received in Auckland over the week-end that the flight of Lieu\;. K. M. Frewen from Hobart to the Bluff, reported to have been arranged for to-day has been postponed. It is understood that the Australian civil aviation authorities refuse to allow any flight except in a seaplane. Lieut. Frewen was to use a Bristol fighter. ANOTHER SCHEME UNDER. WAY. PURCHASE OF MODERN MACHINE. Independent of the Auckland movement, steps have been taken by a number of private citizens throughout the Dominion to subscribe a sum of money with a view to purchasing one of the moist modem aeroplanes in which an attempt will he made, at a suitable time, to: cross the Tasman Sea from Australia to New Zealand (says the “Dominion”). Those in Wellington associated -with the movement sure disinclined at the moment to release details for publication, but it is understood on good authority the total of the amounts subscribed to date is not very short of the sum. considered necessary for the purchase of the machine. At all events the matter has so- far developed that it is expected to be finalised very shortly, so that the flight can be arranged at on early date.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 September 1927, Page 9
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217FLIGHT POSTPONED. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 September 1927, Page 9
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