TRANS-OCEAN FLIGHTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 January 1928, Page 5

TRANS-OCEAN FLIGHTS

1 “HAREBRAINED PROPOSALS.” . I CONQUEST OF THE TASMAN. RECOGNITION REFUSED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. SYDNEY, Jan. 23. Mr. Pratten, Minister of Trade and Customs, states that although permission to make the proposed flight to New Zealand does not rest with his department. he thinks there is “a good deal of stunting connected with such harebrained Eight proposals - ’ and it is unlikely, in view of the many tragedies that have occurred in the past twelve months that the Government can be a. party to giving encouragement to further adventures of that kind. Received 12.5 p.m. to-day. MELBOURNE Jan. 24. In pursuance of their intention tu place before the Federal authorities their plans for the flight from Australia to New Zealand, Captain Moody and Mr. Jolley interviewed Mr Brins mead, who later made a statement that the attitude of the Minister towards the proposed flight had already been clearly explained. “I have indicated to Captain Moody and Mr Jolley that no departmental facilities will be placed at the disposal of any person who proposed to organise a long oversea flight in an aeroplane designed specially for land flying,” he said. “Knowing particularly the machine which Captain Moody and Mr Jolley propose to use it is intended for this purpose that the authorities will not recognise Jt in any manner whatsoever. The use of the Government aerodrome for the proposed flight will be refused.”