AEROPLANE'S FAST TRIP.
SWEPT BY SOUTHERLY BUSTER. INTER-ISLAND STEAMER DELAYED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) OHRISTCH'UKCH, This Day.
Swept up from Dunedin on the tail of a southerly "buster," air travellers fiom Dunedin this morning made the trip at a speed of 200 miles per hour. The air line distance is 203 miles and the Union Airway's machine "Korero " made it in sixty-two minutes, leaving Dunedin at 8.20 a.m. and landing here at !>.22 a.m.
When the passengers were delivered at their hotels breakfast was still "on," though they had all breakfasted at quite a normal hour in the .southern city.
The same gale that helped the aeroplane retarded the inter-island steamer Alumina, which had a line trip as far as the Lyttellon Heads, but the wind was so focussed by the hills around the harbour that she could not berth till 5.4.1 a.m., though she had been outside the'Moles at 7 o'clock.
The Railway Department did not hold back the South express as there is a second express at noon on Fridays.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 July 1936, Page 5
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