IS TASMAN FLIGHT REPORT MERELY A FALSE ALARM?
Kingsford-Smith In Melbourne Says He Is Not Even Thinking Of It.
HAS a hoax been perpetrated in connection with the reported flight of the Southern Cross Junior to New Zealand? On the heels of a Press Association message from Wellington announcing the flight, through the post office comes a cablegram from Melbourne to say that Kingsford-Smith is in Melbourne, and has not even contemplated, a flight to New Zealand. The question arises, therefore, as to whether the first news, received by the Chief Post Office at Wellington is a pure hoax, or whether some machine other than the Southern Cross is on the way to New Zealand. The text of the first Press Association message from Wellington was as follows: The Chief Post Office has received a report from Sydney that the aeroplane Southern Cross Junior was reported to have left Sydney at one o’clock this morning bound for New Zealand. All shipping was requested to keep a sharp look out. The next message received by the Press Association from Sydney, at 2.15 p.m., read:— Kingsford-Smith is in Melbourne. Flight to New Zealand not even contemplated.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19271, 7 January 1931, Page 7
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194IS TASMAN FLIGHT REPORT MERELY A FALSE ALARM? Star (Christchurch), Issue 19271, 7 January 1931, Page 7
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