SAMOAN CLIPPER
FAST FLIGHT TO PAGO PAGO By Telegraph—Pres- Association AUCKLAND. January 2 The Pan-American Samoan Clipper impressively rose into the air at 3 a.m. to-day from Waitemata harbour, on her second return trip across the Pacific. She alighted on the harbour at Pago Pago at 3.35 p.m., New Zealand time, the first stage of the trip inaugurating the first commercial air service between New Zealand and the United States thus occupying 12hr. 35min. Stowed aboard the Clipper were 3731 b. of air mail, and between 7 and 81b of express freight. The Clipper arrived in Auckland on Sunday, December 26, and was originally timed to leave on her return trip on Wednesday. Adverse meteorological reports were responsible for her departure being postponed on several occasions. Early on Friday evening it was confidently expected that she would leave at 2.45 o’clock on Saturday morning, but bad visibility later caused another change in plans.
When she left before dawn to-day, the local weather was clear and meteorological reports indicated average conditions on the route. The Clipper is expected to leave for Kingman Reef about 5 a.m. to-morrow.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20925, 3 January 1938, Page 5
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186SAMOAN CLIPPER Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20925, 3 January 1938, Page 5
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