SELLING HIS ’PLANE
“May be Glory, But Little Cash,” Says “Smithy” HOPE TO RECOUP HIMSELF NOT DOWNHEARTED CUnitei Pros# «o»oclatlon—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12. “There may be glory, but there is little cash for aviation feats,’’ iSir Charles Kingsford Smith sadly observed on Monday as he set about selling the Lady Southern Cross in order to balance his accounts. “We chaps who blaze air trails have little to show for our deeds when it comes right down to it. 111-fate has marked us for its own. “I hope I can get 30,000 dollars for the Lady Southern Cross,’’ he said. “She is worth all that and more. I will need that much to repay my sponsors and reimburse myself as well as buy my passage home. “However, to-morrow is another dav, and I am not doyvnhearted, ’*Sir Charles added.
Sir Charles had intended flying round the world.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 14 November 1934, Page 7
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