TRANS-TASMAN FLIGHT.
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NOT BEFORE SUNDAY ANNOUNCING THE NEWS. POST OFFICE ARRANGEMENTS. (by telegraph—press association.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 7. The Secretary of the General Post Office announces that arrangements have been made to fly flags at the principal post offices in the Domision on receipt of the news that the aviators have left Sydney. Should the flight commence on Sunday morning, or if for any reason it is postponed till Monday morning or to a later date, the same action will be taken *on the date of the flight. The Department has also ararnged for certain of its officers on the west coast of both islands to report quickly to Wellington should the aviators- be sighted during their approach to the Dominion.
DANNEVIEKE, Jan. 7.
Mr. A. McNicol, trustee of the Tasman Flight Fund, has received the following cable from Lieut. Moncrieff, leader of the expedition:— ‘ “Definitely not leaving Sunday; any time after that weather permitting.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 7 January 1928, Page 7
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