Clipper’s Uneventful Trip
NINE PASSENGERS ON BOARD Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Sept. 26. After an uneventful trip from Noumea tho Honlulu Clipper of PanAmerican Airways arrived at Auckland at 2.29 p.m. on the conclusion of its flight from San Francisco. The flight was carried out according to schedule without incident, stated Captain Barrows, who was in command. The trip from Noumea was covered in six hours 59 minutes, which was stated to be well within the average scheduled time.
Seven of the nine passengers ♦are bound for Australia and most of them will leave by the Tasman Empire Airways flying-boat on Saturday morning. The passengers were Mr. Keith Officer, Australian Counsellor in Washington; Mr. V. Jurgens, American journalist; Mr. W. Rothfield, of Melbourne; Mr. C. McKay, of Melbourne; Mr. Floyd Soto, of Los Angeles; Mr. Ellis Wackett, of Melbourne; Mr. F. J. Cordall, of San Francisco; and Messrs. R. M. Wilson and P. W. Farley, two students at Yale University. The Clipper is scheduled to leave on Saturday morning on her return flight to San Francisco and her passengers are likely to include several who are due to arrive on the Tasman flying-boat from Sydney to-morrow afternoon.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 229, 27 September 1940, Page 7
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