FLIGHT DELAYED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22108, 14 May 1935, Page 10

FLIGHT DELAYED

T.ASMAN CKOSSING UNFAVOURABLE WEATHER NEW ZEALAND PHILATELISTS TEN THOUSAND ENVELOPES Acting on the advice of the New South Wales Government meteorologist, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith has postponed his flight from Australia to New Zealand until to-morrow morning owing to an intense disturbance in the centre of the Tasman Sea. A Press Association cablegram states that the postal authorities in Sydney have acquiesced in the postponement of the flight. ; Sir Charles said that if his equipment had been modern he would have taken off to-day, as arranged, in order to prove the feasibility of a regular transtasman air mail service. In the ciroumstances ho appreciated the generous attitude of the postal department. Ten .thousand envelopes for the Jubilee air mail which will leave Australia for New Zealand in the Southern Cross and the Faith in Australia tomorrow (if the weather permits) have arrived in Sydney from Dominion philatelists. The original intention was that the flight should be made during the daylight hours to-day. The airmen expected! to reach New Plymouth about 8 : 30 p.m. They were scheduled to leave Ninety-Mile Beach at dawn on Monday next on the return journey.