Clipper Due At Pago Pago To-Day
ISpecinl To “Northern Advocate ”] AUCKLAND, This Day.
Soaring southwards on its way from Honolulu to New Zealand, PanAmerican Airways Sikorsky flyingboat, Samoan Clipper, arrived at Kingman Reef at 12.21 yesterday afternoon. The flight occupied six hours 48 minites.
Captain Edwin C. Mustek, who has been in command of the ship during ito two previous trips to Auckland, is in command of the present flight. No other details of the crew are available. At Auckland Wednesday. It is expected that the Clipper will leave Kingman Reef this morning and will reach Pago Fago in the afternoon. Given good weather, she will most likely take off from Pago Pago at dawn to-morrow morning, landing on Ihc Waiteraata Harbour at about five o’clock in the afternoon. If the Clipper arrives to schedule, she will leave Auckland before dawn on Saturday for Pago Pago, carrying nla.il and freight on the northward flight.
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Northern Advocate, 11 January 1938, Page 7
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