AVIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21431, 4 September 1931, Page 9

AVIATION

MISS AMY JOHNSON PLANE BEACHES OMSK. MOSCOW, September 2. Miss Amy Johnson arrived at Omsk, en route to England. AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICES. -* ALTERATIONS ANNOUNCED. SYDNEY, September 3. - (Received Sept. 3, at 8 p.m;) The postal department has decided to discontinue the Brisbane-Townsville airmail service after September 25, but the Melbourne-Tasmanian service, which was suspended last June, will be recommenced on September ,12. ~?'~-V.■’VFLIGHT ROUND AUSTRALIA. PLANE LEAVES DARWIN. DARWIN, September 3. (Received Sept. 3, at, 8 p.m.) Mr Broadbent left at 9.35 this morning for Wyndham and Derby. He expects to reach Perth to-morrow. IMPORTANCE OF AIR LINKS. SEPTUAGENARIAN’S CRUSADE. , LONDON, September 3. (Received Sept. 3, at 11.50 p.m.) Wearing a battered leather jacket and a kit strapped to her shoulders, and looking every inch a tradesman, a septuagenarian, Mrs Hewlett, boarded a Dutch air liner at Croydon. She said her journey was a crusade, but if the pilot was ill she could take the controls. She declares that New Zealand is her adopted country, and she intends throwing - all her enthusiasm into the task of convincing Australia and New Zealand that they cannot afford longer to neglect air links with the remainder of the world.