AIRLINER DELAYED.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13284, 16 June 1936, Page 5

AIRLINER DELAYED.

FOG OYER CHRISTCHURCH. Electric Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH. Last Night. The Union Airways air-liner Korimako was a little more- than an hour late in arriving at the Wigram aerodrome this morning because of the fog and 20 minutes of the delay was taken up in circling about Chrisxrchurch waiting for the mist to clear so that Pilot A. G. Get rand could see the landing ground. The northbound machine had had no trouble in landing at Christchurch, but after it- left fo-r Blenheim the fog rapidly grew worse and the Korimako coming south had bad weather all the way down from the Clarence river. On arrival over Christchurch the pilot was unable to see the ground and rather than fly on to Ashburton, which he knew from radio communications was fairly clear, he chose to circle the* city and Port Hills waiting for the fog to clear. He* could he seen and heard from tlie ground and was in constant two-way radio communication with Ihe aerodrome. He finally made a perfect landing, taking advantage* of a break in the* fog. " 'The* machine later left for Dunedin. The northbound machine, which bad no trouble at Christchurch, was delayed lor a little, time* at Blenheim because of the log.