Aloft Again

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 982, 27 May 1930, Page 9

Aloft Again

FLIER CROSSING AUSTRALIA

Prince Praises Miss Johnson

MAY VISIT DOMINION BEFORE RETURN

ACCLAIMED a heroine the world over for lier lone flight ** from England, Miss Amy Johnson, the young English girl flier, is winging her way across Australia toward Sydney. She expects to reach there on Monday next. It is suggested Miss Johnson may visit New Zealand before returning to England by steamer.

L nited P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 10.5 a.m. SYDNEY. Today. Miss Amy Johnson, who landed at Darwin on Saturday and who left yesterday to fly across Australia in easy stages to Sydney, was reported passing over Brunette Downs Station, 20 miles short of her destination, Alexandria Station. No advice of her arrival there is expected, as the place is entirely isolated. A message from Brisbane says Miss Johnson will fly today to Longreach, stopping at Camooweal and Cloncurry en route. The distance is 570 miles. She will be the guest of the Governor while in Brisbane. Miss Johnson, who is well, set out from Darwin in her own machine and was escorted by a Queensland and Northern Territory Air Service airplane and two Moths. The party reached Daly Waters at

day and Sydney on Monday afternoon. Before leving Darwin Miss Johnson’s sole worry was how her mother would be fretting. She said Mrs. Johnson thought the risk of the flight to Australia was fearful. The girl flier intends to stay three months in Australia and possibly will visit New Zealand. A message from Darwin says the telegraph office has been inundated with work during Miss Amy Johnson's visit. Press telegrams about the flight amounted to 47,000 words and 800 congratulatory telegrams for the aviatrix were received.

The map indicates the most difficult part of Miss Amy Johnson’s flight—from Rangoon, through Java, to Darwin—and shows also the route the flier is taking across Australia to Sydney, where she expects to land on Monday next. noon. There the fliers had luncheon, afterward leaving for Alexandria Station. Miss Johnson expects to reach Cloncurry today, Brisbane on Thurs-

PRAISE FROM THE PRINCE Reed. 11.5 a.m. LONDON, Monday. The Prince of Wales, in opening flip Congress of the Empire Chambers of Commerce, paid a striking tribute to Miss Johnson. He said: "During the past few days I have watched with the greatest interest the pluckiest single-handed attempt to shorten the distance between England and Australia. “I know you will join with me in extending to her the heartiest congratulations on her remarkable achievement.” Thanksgiving prayers for the safe arrival at Darwin of Miss Amy Johnson were offered in the churches of Hull yesterday, particularly in the Wesleyan Church in Princes Avenue, where Miss Johnson is organist. “The Times” says Miss Johnson has proved herself mistress of her machine, which must be a superlatively sound one. The “Daily Mail” says no woman In history has shown such a combination of initiative, endurance, organising capacity and pluck. Other British Press comment is along the same lines and pays the girl flier highest tribute for the successful accomplishment of her ideal. The “Daily Sketch” has opened a shilling fund to buy Miss Amy Johnson a, new airplane.