KINGSFORD SMITH’S LAMENT.
“GLORY BUT LITTLE CASH.”
Los Angeles, November 12. “There may be glory, but there is little cash for aviation feats,” Sir Charles Kingsford Smith sadly observed on-Monday as he set ab,out to sell 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,” he said. “111-fate has marked us for its own.”
Previously be had hoped to complete the circling of the globe. “I hope I can get 30,000 dollars for the Lady Southern Cross,” lie added “She is worth all that and more, and I will need so much to repay my sponsors and reimburse myself, as well as buy a passage home, but to-morrow is another day and I am not down-hearted.” .Sir Charles flew to Oaik.la.nd to act as honorary marshal in the Armistice Day parade and to visit his brother. He afterwards returned to Los Angeles.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4419, 15 November 1934, Page 3
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163KINGSFORD SMITH’S LAMENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4419, 15 November 1934, Page 3
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