DOMINION TOUR

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19943, 30 October 1934, Page 6

DOMINION TOUR

NEW ZEALAND COMPETITORS IN AIR RACE By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, October 29. Arrangements for a tour of the Dominion to be made by the two New Zealand crews entered for the Centenary Air Race with their machines have been completed. Details wre discussed at the week-end by representatives of the New Zealand and Manawatu Centenary Air Race committee, which were responsible for the entries of Hewett and Kay and F. Stewart, of Auckland, and McGregor and Walker, of Manawatu. respectively. Mr L. W. Swan, secretary of the New Zealand committee, said the Auckland crew which was held up at Cloncurry at present as a result of a mishap would telephone Auckland on arrival at Melbourne and make final arrangements for the trans-Tasman flight. Originally it had been planned that they should arrive at Mangere about 7 p.m. on Thursday or Friday of this week, but the delay at Cloncurry might result in the flight being undertaken at the week-end with a daytime landing. The Miles Hawk entered from Manawatu would be shipped to Auckland by the Wanganella, which was due to leave Melbourne to-morrow and Sydney on November 3. arriving at Auckland on November 6. The tour had been scheduled to commence from Auckland on November 9, and the itinerary which had been tentatively fixed included visits to all the principal centres in the North Island and also calls at Christchurch, Hokitika and Nelson in the South Island. The total cost of the Auckland entry is nearly £BOOO, and there is a liability of £3OOO on the guarantors, well-known Auckland sportsmen Mr Swan said it was hoped, however, that this sum would be recovered by the proceeds of the tour.