TASMAN CROSSING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23851, 30 December 1940, Page 6

TASMAN CROSSING

FLIGHT BY AOTEAROA Fourteen passengers and a heavy mail consignment arrived at Auckland yesterday by the flying-boat Aotoaroa, which made a fair-weather crossing from Sydney under the command of Captain Oscar Garden. Among the passengers was Major-General Sir John Duigan, K.8.F., C.8., D.5.0., Chief of the General Staff, who headed the New Zealand delegation to the recent Eastern Group Conference at Delhi. Also on board were three children of one family. The passengers were:—Mrs. If. Begg, Miss M. Begg, Masters M. and 1). Begg, Mrs. M. Z. Badley, Miss A. Haes, Miss (). H. Fairhal!, MajorGeneral Sir John Duignn, Lieutenant G. Crosslev, Messrs. J. S. Gill, L. P. Healy, J. Faulie, G. S. Badley and G. Tripp tier. PAOIFIO AIK SERVICE SOUTH KB X FLIGHT DELAYED Pan American Airways' north-bound American Clipper, which left Auckland at 9.45 a.m. on Saturday, arrived at Xouruea. at 4.36 p.m., Auckland time, the same day. Leaving Noumea yesterday morning, the Clipper arrived at. Canton Island at 6.55 p.m., Auckland time. A day's stay will be made at Canton Island before the flight to San Francisco, via Honolulu and Ijos Angeles, is continued. Unfavourable weather between San Francisco and Honolulu has delayed the departure of the south-bound Clipper, which was to have left San Francisco yesterday morning, and the departure time is indefinite in the meantime.