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“SMITHY’S” TASMAN FLIGHT EARLY IN NEW YEAR. SYDNEY, November 2. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith stated that he would compete in the Melbourne centenary race and then renounce longdistance flying. He said he did not regard flying to New Zealand as long-dis-tance flying, as the journey could be made by daylight. He hopes to leave for New Zealand early in January. A TRANSATLANTIC SERVICE. ST. JOHNS (Newfoundland), Nov. 2, (Received Nov. 2, at 11.30 p.m.) The Prime Minister (Mr F. C. Alderdice) to-night intimated that the-Govern-ments of Britain, Canada and Newfoundland had reached an agreement with regard to the proposed transatlantic air service. The terms could not be disclosed at present but they were satisfactory to all who had participated in the conference here last summer. He offered no prediction when the service Would be established, but he felt certain that a transatlantic air base would be developed . eventually in Newfoundland.
The proposed route is said to be from Liverpool by way of northern Scotland, Iceland, Greenland, Labrador, and Montreal, there to link up with American and Canadian cities to the Pacific coast.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22101, 3 November 1933, Page 9
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