FLIGHTS TO AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21167, 27 April 1932, Page 11

FLIGHTS TO AUSTRALIA.

SCOTT LEAVES BATAVIA. END OF TRIP IN SIGHT. EXPECTED AT DARWIN TO-DAY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received A;pril 2fi, 7.45 p.in.) DATA VIA, April 20. Mr. C. W. A. Scott, who left England early last Tuesday morning in his attempt to make £. fresh record for the England-Australia flight, left, Singapore at 3.5 a.m. to-day for Rembang. Ho arrived at Batavia at 10 a.m. and left at 10.25 a.m. for Sourabaya. A Sydney messago states that advice received there to-day indicates that Mr. Scott hopes to land at Darwin on Wednesday evening by tho aid. of flares. LADY CHAYTOR'S PILOT. MR. RICHARDS AT DARWIN. JOURNEY COMPLETED ALONE. (Received April 26, 7.15 p.m.) DARWIN. April 2G. Mr. R. T. Richards, who was Lady Chaytor's pilot on her long-planned flight, from England to Australia, left Koepang at 3 a.m. to-day and arrived at Darwin at 12.3 p.m. A Fremantle message states that Lady Chavtor arrived on board the Narkunda. Sho abandoned the flight at Calcutta owing to illness and Mr. Richards flew to Darwin alone. Lady Chaytor, wife of the baronet, Sir Edmund Chaytor, began the flight to Australia, with Mr. R. T. Richards as pilot, on March 6. According to the Daily Express Lady Chaytor hoped that on her arrival in Australia she would make enough money lecturing on fashions in clothes to enable the family to resume residence in Witton Castle, Durham. The aeroplane hit a snowdrift in landing at the Sofia aerodrome, and the propeller was broken. Sir Edmund Chaytor, tho sixth baronet, was bo:n in 1876 and is _ a relative of the Now Zealand family which supplied Major-General Sir Edward Chaytor, the brilliant Light Horse leader of the Palestine campaign.