LONG AERIAL TAXI TRIP

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 31 October 1933, Page 5

LONG AERIAL TAXI TRIP

ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA. FLIGHT OF 110 HOURS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) BRISBANE, Oct. 30. The monoplane “Faithful City/’ with Pilot Blosse, and Lord Apsley and Mr W. Crawford Greene, members of the British House of 'Commons, as passengers, arrived here, completing the first aerial taxi trip from London in a flying time of 110 hours. 'Lord Apsley has a connection with journalism both filial and practical, for his mother was the daughter of the late Lord 'Glenesk, who owned the “Morning Post.’’ 'ln 1925 Lord Apsley went to Australia incognito. Under an assumed name he travelled out as a third-class passenger on the liner Orama. At the Immigration Bureau he obtained work as a farm labourer, and then set out to discover how British migrants fare in Australia. He is interested in migration problems, and, after working on a farm for a while, he toured on a “bicycle through agricultural districts in Victoria and South Australia. After two months ho finished as guest at the State Government House, Melbourne. Lord Apsley is aged 38 years, and is the Conservative member for Bristol Central in the House of Commons. He has been a member ror several years. His decorations were won in the late war. He was educated at Eton. .Lord Apsley is a young political speaker of promise, with a. thorough knowledge of the issues of the day and a peculiarly graceful turn of. speech in presenting them. One or two of his extempore speeches in the House of Commons have 'become almost. historic, notably one opposing the suggested removal of the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey. He is an earnest student of history, and made a special study of Imperial affairs when Private Parliamentary Secretary to Colonel Buckley, a former President of the Board of Overseas Trade. He refused similar appointments in order to visit Australia and learn at first hand the potentialities of that Dominion. He has been associated in Parliament with the study of questions connected with the Balkans, the Near and Mid-East generally, with all of Avhom he has had personal connection. He published a book on hi's Austraian adventure.