“AVIATOR TOOK A GREAT RISK.”
WING-COMMANDER COMMENTS ON FLIGHT. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, January 7. “I would like to express my admira-
tion on behalf of the Government of the wonderful flight achieved by Mr Menzies,” said the Acting-Prime Minister, the Hon E. A. Ransom, to-night. “As far as we are able to judge the flight was made with little apparent preparation. We appreciate the interest the flight will arouse in the possibilities of aviation between Australia and New Zealand across an ocean previously traversed by air by that great aviator, Air Commodore Kingsford-Smith and party. “A bold attempt brought to a successful conclusion,” was Wing-Com-rnander Grant-Dalton’s comment on the performance. He did not favour long distance sea hops in a single engined land machine of the type used and was of opinion that the aviator had taken a great risk.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19272, 8 January 1931, Page 5
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