ANOTHER FLIGHT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20057, 14 March 1935, Page 6

ANOTHER FLIGHT

KINGSFORD SMITH’S PLANS By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, March 13. Interviewed on arrival by the Wanganella, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith raid there is a possibility that he will be flying the Southern Cross to New Zealand within the next couple of months. He would carry freight if he could get sufficient firms interested to make the flight worth while, and possibly on the return trip carry mail and drop it at Lord Howe Island. He indicated that the Southern Cross would make only one more Tasman flight. “The old bus,” he said, “has earned a rest.” The flight would be made with a view to the establishment of a regular service. He intends to spend about ten days in New Zealand and thinks the proposed flight with freight will be well supported, becaiSse of the novelty. Therefore he hopes a service will be maintained. He said tjjat if the Governments of Australia and New Zealand decided to go ahead with the establishment of a regular passenger service across the Tasman, it could be started at any time. However, the Australian Government considered the time not opportune at present, and he had lost interest in the project for the time being. He still considers Bell Block at New Plymouth the best situated aerodrome for the trans-Tasman service with Sydney.