PROGRESS OF AOTEAROA
EXPECTED AT SYDNEY AT 3 P.M. [United Press Association] AUCKLAND. This Day. • According to radio advice received at the Transtasman Air Base the Aotearoa was 600 miles out from Auckland at 10.30 o'clock New Zealand time, flying at an altitude of 6000 feet at 156 miles an hour. Visibility was 20 miles and the weather partly cloudy with light winds. At noon the flving-boat was 460 miles from Sydney and had radioed that its estimated time of arrival was 3 o'clock New Zealand time. AOTEAROA AT SYDNEY The flying-boat Aotearoa reached Sydney from Auckland at 3.15 p.m. (New Zealand time).
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 April 1940, Page 6
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