KINGSFORD SMITH.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 296, 14 December 1931, Page 1

KINGSFORD SMITH.

Due in England To-day from Rome. LEAVES FOR LONDON. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ROME, December 12. Air Commodore C. E. Kingsford Smith arrived at 4 p.m. in the Southern Star, on his flight to England with the Christmas air mail originally carried by the Southern Sun, which crashed between Alor Star and Rangoon. He is due at Croydon on Monday. Kingsford Smith left for London at 7.50 a.m. CAN STILL BEAT RECORD. (Received December 14, 12.50p.m.) LONDON, December 13. Kingsford Smith arrived at Lyons at 12.55. He will resume his flight tomorrow morning, December 14, and can still beat the commercial record. HINKLER AT HOME. LONDON, December 12. The Mayor and corporation and people of Southampton, including Mr J. Matthews, who attempted to fly to Australia with the late Mr Eric Hook, assembled at Atlantic Park, the site of the municipal air port, to welcome Mr Bert Hinkler on his punctual arrival on his flight home in his historic Puss Moth. Mr Hinkler was accompanied from Winchester by three machines attached to the Hampshire Aeroplane Club, of which he is a member. Mr Hinkler, after his wife had greeted him, and the speeches and cheers had ended, declared that the real way to see the world, accompanied by good service, safety, pleasure and education, was by “ a great little British aeroplane.” COLONEL BRINSMEAD. SINGAPORE, December 12. The condition of Colonel H. C. Brinsmead, the survivor of the Dutch mail ’plane crash, has slightly improved.