TRANS-TASMAN AVIATORS

Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1934, Page 9

TRANS-TASMAN AVIATORS

SOUTHERN CROSS TO DEPART TO LEAVE FOR FOXTON MID-DAY. CHOICE OF TAKING-OFF GROUND. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith will leave New Plymouth in the Southern Cross at 12.30 to-day for the Foxton beach, where he is expected at two o’clock this afternoon. He will be accompanied by Lady Kingsford Smith, who will when' possible tour with the. Southern Cross throughout New Zealand. The trans-Tasman fliers -made no flights in the plane yesterday and a trip round the mountain was abandoned on account of the weather. The Waco machine also made no flights, though late in the afternoon a New Plymouth Aero Club’s: Moth made a few passenger trips. No trips will be made this morning.. ■ . The New Plymouth. Aero Club entertained Sir Charles and party last night at an informal, cabaret..at which Lady Smith was, through indisposition, unable to be . present.

It is possible that this morning Sir Charles will-i?weet the field pear Waitara from which Mr. C, ,T. P. Ulm may take off for Australia. Sir Charles may consider it , for a taking-off place, hut it is almost certain that the return flight will be started from Ninety Mile Beach. Blenheim may also be considered, but the New Plymouth airport, uptil improvements are made, is definitely out of the limning as a taking-off ground, though it remains, according to Mr. Wilfrid Kingsford Smith, the premier choice as a terminal airport from Australia.