THE PRESENT POSITION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 284, 29 October 1934, Page 7

THE PRESENT POSITION.

WHERE COMPETITORS ARE

LOCATED

The positions of the various competitors in the race are now as follow :—• At Melbourne—Scott and Black, Britain. Parmentier and Moll, Holland. Turner and Pangborn, United States. Waller and Jones, Britain. McGregor and Walker, New Zealand. Left Cloncurry— Ilewett and Kay, New Zealand. At Darwin — Melrose, Australia. Over Newcastle Waters— Stodart Bros., Britain. Left Rambang— Hansen and Jensen, Denmark. At Calcutta — Mr and Mrs Mollison, Britain. At Cyprus— Davies and Hill, Britain, At Athens — Brook and Miss Lay, Britain. Out of Race— Woods and Bennett, Australia, crashed at Aleppo. Baines and Gilman, New Zealand, killed in crash in Italy.

Miss J. Cochran, United States, mishap landing at Bucharest. Parer and Hemsworth, New Guinea, engine trouble at Marseilles. Stack and Turner, Britain, abandoned flight at Athens » Asjes and Geyseudorffer, Holland, ' ’plane burned. AVrignt and Polando, United States, abandoned at Karachi. ,( Shaw, Britain, abandoned at Jodh-

pur. WALLER AND JONES.

THE RETURN FLIGHT. ARRIVAL AT SINGAPORE. Received October 29. 8.5 a.m.

MELBOURNE, Oct. 28. Waller and Jones, who left in their Comet at 7.5 a.m. yesterday, reached Charleville at 10.50 a.m. and Darwin at 5.45 p.m. They averaged 228 miles an hour during the trip from Melbourne to Charleville. Waller said the engines were running perfectly. They felt the machine had not altogether done justice to itself on the run out, so they were making the round trip to prove its reliability and speed Waller and Jones arrived at Singapore at 3 p.m., ten hours after leaving Darwin and averaging 210 miles an hour. Waller stated at Darwin that he and Jones intend to reach London in 4 days 17i hours from. Melbourne. They are spending Monday night at Allahabad and Tuesday night at Baghdad. They are not flying at night. En route to Darwin they passed through a dust-storm which they could not avoid, even at 10,000 feet.

HOLLAND APPRECIATIVE

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 27,

As an appreciation of the help given to the Dutch pilots at Albury, a committee has been formed to collect subscriptions to provide a lasting souvenir to be given to the town.

WIRELESS FILMS.

LONDON, Oct. 27.

The first wireless films of the air race -were shown at hundreds of cinemas on Friday. The fliers were greeted by immense applause. A total of 160 pictures were cabled at a cost of £39 apiece.

LEISURELY FLIGHT. DARWIN, Oct. 27. The New Zealander, Mr S. G. White, of Rahui, Havelock North, who left England on September 18 in a Gypsy Moth on a solo flight to Australia, arrived at 1.20 p.m'. on Saturday. He earned the admiration of everyone here for liis solo flight in a tiny machine. White, genial and yopthful, said he had been taking the journey leisurely and had not been out to break records. He had experienced several misfortunes. At Jodhpur the machine’s engine gave trouble, and at Palembang he had malaria fever, which delayed him some days. White carries a spare propeller strapped to the centre section of the struts.