DAUNTLESS PATHFINDER

Hawera Star, Volume L, 10 January 1931, Page 5

DAUNTLESS PATHFINDER

‘ ‘ SMITHY \S ’ ’ SOUTHERN CROSS.

-PLANE FOLLOWING MASTER. 'United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8. Kingston! Smith’s aeroplane Southern Cross was to-day loaded into the steamer Golden Bear for Sydney. The “Examiner,” in an eloquent tribute, says: “Twenty-six days to cover what those roaring whirlwind motors accomplished in 88 hours. No gallant conquest of darkness now; no tempestuous storms out of Suva or lashing gales in the South Seas; no cheering throngs iit. Honolulu or Brisbane —just a crowded place in the hull of a crawling tramp for the dauntless pathfinder that Kings and Presidents acclaimed on that second mighty victorv last year in the first east to west Atlantic flight. Kingsford Smith has gone on to Australia and the lonely old crate follows her master in the only way left.”