TRANS-TASMAN AIR SERVICE
CAPTAIN BURGESS TO BRING OUT FIRST SHIP
(United Press Association)
AUCKLAND, February 12. Information that her husband, Captain J. W. Burgess, who commanded the Imperial Airways flying-boat Centaurus on its pioneer flight to New Zealand and back little more than a year ago will fly the first of the trans-Tasmar? aircraft from England, was brought by Mrs Burgess who arrived from London by the Rangitiki with her little son to take up residence in Auckland. Mrs Burgess was not able to say when the flight was likely to be made but mentioned that some weeks before she left England her husband had ceased to command machines on the Singapore and African mail routes and had been engaged entirely on preliminary organizing work for the transTasman service.
Mrs Burgess, whose family lives in Wellington, visited New Zealand with her baby boy at the time of her husband’s former flight.
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Southland Times, Issue 23741, 13 February 1939, Page 6
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151TRANS-TASMAN AIR SERVICE Southland Times, Issue 23741, 13 February 1939, Page 6
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