GOODWILL MISSION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18396, 14 May 1934, Page 8

GOODWILL MISSION

ULM’S TASMAN FLIGHT MOTIVE EXPLAINED MESSAGES DELIVERED (Pur Proas Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Explaining the reason for his Tasman flight, Mr Charles Ulm, in an interview, explained that he had read in the press a letter from tho Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes to Mr J. A. Lyons in which Mi' Forbes stated, among other things, that the trans-Tasman flight achievements were doing much to still further strengthen the ties of commerce between the two countries. lie had also read that Mr Lyons was framing a goodwill message to Mr Forbes and the peoplo of New Zealand. 'Mr Ulm said lie wrote to Mr Lyons that he was able to endorse, from his personal knowledge of the great goodwill that existed between New Zealand and Australia, all that 'Mr Forbes said, and 'suggested that his letter to Mr Forbes should be flown across. Mr Lyons accepted with enthusiasm. “'Hence,’’ said Mr Ulm, “we have arrived on a goodwill flight, bringing to New Zealand messages from the Govorncr-Gcnoral of Australia, the Governor of New South Wales, tho Governor of Queensland, the Prime Minister of Australia, the Minister of Defence, the president of the Returned Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Association, the president of the New South Wales Returned Soldiers’ League, the president of the Australian Flying Corps’ Association, and other officials of the Commonwealth.’’ Mr Ulm said that when the return flight was completed he would have made flights of the Tasman in the months of September, October, December, February, April, and .May, and so would ‘lie well on towards completing a survey from the point of view of having flown in every month of the year. He was convinced that we were very close to the time when it would be possible to operate a completely safe and regular air service (between Australia and New Zealand. The message brought by the Faith in Australia from Sir Philip Game, Governor of New South Wales, to the people of New Zealand says Mr. Ulm has done much to strengthen the material links which unite the two countries. His message was written, in the far north-west, and lie felt that it would gather up the goodwill of all men and women on the land on the long journey to Sydney for conveyance with speed and success to New Zealand. The message of the Australian Minister of Commerce, Mr. F. H. Stewart, to the lion. R. Masters, says Mr. Ulm in undertaking the transmission of written communication across the Tasman in the short space of a few hours is drawing closer together the tics which the two countries, in their mutual desire for a still further extension of inter-Dominion trade and common aims in commerce, are bringing into still closer co-operation the Dominions of Australia and New Zealand, whose names are united forever in the glorious name of Anzac. The Governor of Queensland, in a message to Lord Bledisloe, looks forward to the not. distant time when he and Lord Bledisloe will be able to exchange Weekend visits.