ROUND THE WORLD

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 87, 4 July 1927, Page 1

ROUND THE WORLD

LATITUDE OF THE EQUATOR NEW YORK, Saturday. The Washington correspondent of the New York “Times” says a flight

around the world at the equator is now contemplated. It may have the serious attention of the American naval authorities when Commander Bvrd returns to Europe. This fact was made known to-day by the Secretary of the Navy. air. Curtis Wilbur. He said he would like to see a man fly around the world in the latitude of the equator. That, in fact, had been recommended to him It is understood the flight would probably be Panama. —A. and N.Z. ROUTE MAPS SUTcESTED PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S IDEA NEW YORK, Saturday. A message from Rapid City says the President, Mr. Coolidge, who is spending a vacation here, stated that, such progress has been made in transoceanic flights that he believes the time has come for international cooperation in mapping out oceanic courses . These should be lighted and protected by radio communication. There should also be a reasonable number of sea landing places. Mr. Coolidge said Government experts were already considering the subject, and efforts would be made to interest American capitalists to invest in such undertakings. The President said h€( believed the next Congress would propose featies with the other Powers bordering on the Pacific and Atlantic to facilitate transoceanic aviation. —A. and N.Z. AMERICA TO AUSTRALIA By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday. The chairman of the Citizens’ Committee at San Francisco, Mr. M. Kent, is raising a fund of 10,000 for a proposed flight from San Francisco to Honolulu and on to Australia. The possibilities of the plan are being examined. It is considered that such a flight would strengthen the commercial friendship between America and Aus j tralia. —A. and N.Z.-Sun. LONDON TO OTTAWA LONDON, Sunday. Two of the best-known dally crossChannel air pilots, Lieut.-Colomd Minchia and Captain Barnard, hope in the next fortnight to fly in a Fokker airplane with a British engine from London to Ottawa, rest there eight hours and then fly back to London. — A. and N.Z.