CAPTAIN HURLEY RETURNS BY CAR

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6802, 4 January 1929, Page 2

CAPTAIN HURLEY RETURNS BY CAR

CANNOT GET NEW AEROPLANE United Press Association —By Electm Telograph —Copyright. LONDON, Jan. 1. Captain Frank Hurley and Flying Officers Moir and Owens, who suffereu irreparable damago to the ’plane Spirit oc Australia in Greece some while aga when en route from Australia to England, have scoured Europe searching tor a suitable acropluo in which te return to Australia, but they are unable to obtain one. Flying Officers Aloir and Owens desire, to fly back in a D.Il. 50 machine. Captain Hurley, however, is negotiating with a British firm lor his return to Australia by car, in which he will traverse the battlefields of Germany, Switzerland, Central Europe, Turney, Gallipoli, Irak, Persia, India, Barman and the Dutch East Indies, takiug films cn route. It is proposed that Captain. Hurley return to England in September and fly back to Australia in an attempt to beat Captain Bert Hinkler’s record. PERSONALS . .teaFSM wOLa jimecd Word lia3 been received that Rev. F. A. Crawshaw of Palmerston North has been appointed secretary for New Zealand for the Mission to Lepers in succession, to Rev. J. A. Ryburn, of Auckland.