AIR MAIL REACHES KOEPANG

Taranaki Daily News, 28 April 1931, Page 7

AIR MAIL REACHES KOEPANG

SMITH CROSSES OCEAN AGAIN. ENGLISH -MAIL LEAVES DARWi-N. By Telegraph—Press Rec. 7.15 p.m. . Darwin, April 27. Air-Commander Kingsford. Smith. arrived at Koepang from here with 25 bugs of the first Australian air mail at 11 o’clock after his second crossing of the' Titaor Sea. He will take the mail as far as Akyab wlmre he will transfer it to an Imperial Airways machine. He will stop at Koepang, Sourabaya, Singapore, Victoria Point and Rangoon. The local post office almost tan otit of stamps and tliy staff has been Working without a break since 3 o’clock on Saturday afternoon. Over 8000 letters were posted locally. . Kingsford Smith will return, direct with the second English mail, and probably make another trip to Akyab with the second Australian mail. A Quantas plane left Darwin for Brisbane at 0.45 a.m. with the English mails. A London message says the second experimental Britain to Australia air mail service operated by Imperial Airways, which left Croydon in a nine-ton Armstrong-Siddeley air liner is due at Port Darwin on Sunday, May 10. Messrs. Garner and Mollard,- the pilots of the aeroplane City of Cairo, who came from Koepang with the Southern Cross sailed by ths stbamer Coolinda for Perth on imperial Airways business.

HONOUR FOR KINGSFORD SMITH.

AWARDED BRITANNIA CUP, 1930.

Rec. 12.45 a.m. Koepaiig, April 27. A few minutes after his arrival from Darwin Commodore Kingsford Smith received a message from the Royal Air Club that he had been awarded the Britannia trophy for his meritorious performance iri the air in 1930.