FLIERS AT SUVA
DEPARTURE DELAYED AERODROME UNDER WATER RESUMPTION TO-MORROW FANNING ISLAND POSSIBLE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Eeceived October 22, 7.25 p.m.) SUVA. Odt. 22 Heavy rains at Suva are delaying the departure of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Captain P. G. Taylor on the second stage of the flight across the Pacific. Albert Park Aerodrome is under water to-day. Weather permitting, Sir Charles proposes to leave on Wednesday morning for Nasielai Beach, where he will refuel. He will depart finally about noon. Sir Charles is considering the possibilities of landing at Fanning Island, 1200 miles from Suva, where good, hard sand provides a landing-place 1000 yards long and 300 yards wide. There is good niight lighting. On arriving at San Francisco Sir Charles will endeavour to sell the aeroplane to repay his backers. He will return by steamer to Australia, but there is "a remote possibility that he may continue the flight across the Atlantic.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21938, 23 October 1934, Page 10
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