ROYAL WELCOME.

Wairarapa Age, 5 June 1930, Page 5

ROYAL WELCOME.

MISS AMY JOHNSON ARRIVES AT SYDNEY. CROWD WILDLY ENTHUSIASTIC. CITIZENS THRILLED. United Press association. —By Eleotri* Telegraph—Copyright. (Received Wednesday, 8.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 4. Miss Amy Johnson’s reception in Sydney this afternoon was marked by scenes no less enthusiastic and demonstrative than those which, attended the arrival of Smith, Ulm and Hinkler, after their historic flights. It was the womenfolk’s turn to pay homage to one of their own sex, who had. accomplished, a feat which set the whole world talking, and right royally they acclaimed her. The National Airway’s giant Fokker monoplane, the Southern Sun, piloted by Ulm, landed Miss Johnson at the Mascot Aerodrome at 3.55 p.m., in the presence of 70,000 people, .who threw their hats in the air, released coloured balloons, shouted greetings and swarmed across the sloppy aerodrome to obtain a close-up view of the heroine. Giris lost their heads in their feverish desire to get near enough and personally welcome the aviatrix, in whose honour appropriate songs were arranged and sung. Miss Johnson was assisted to a decorated motor truck, on which she was seated on. an easy ehair, and driven round to enable the spectators to see her, cheer her and overwhelm her frith flowers. Then she was transferred to a dais adjacent to the Aero Club House, where she was cordially welcomed and complimented -by many leading people in public life and aviation. -She smiled gratefully through the whole of the long and trying ordeal and waved acknowledgments. She was as graceful as any woman could wish her to be. A feature of the occasion was the aeroplane escort, which accompanied the Southern Sim from a considerable distance north of Sydney to the aerodrome. Altogether, 22 machines, large and small, mostly piloted by women, took part. Returning to the aerodrome in massed formation below drifting clouds they made a sight which will long be remembered by the city’s million people, who craned their necks and were thrilled. - Screeching ferry sirens and noisy motor horns intensified the pandemonium and excitement. CHARMING INTERLUDE. INCIDENTS ON ARRIVAL: (Received Wednesday, 10.55 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 4. Miss Amy Johnson emerged from tho Fokker dressed modestly in a jade green coat and skirt and wore a green for-trimmed overcoat. She was hatless and carried an Australian teddy bear. She received w'any gifts, including a Mai seal-akin coat, trimmed deeply with squirrel fur, from the Arts Club. There was a charming interlude when in the midst of her emotion, at tho -height of turmoil, she sank into the arms of Mrs Garlick, wife of the Chief Civic Commissioner, who caressed her and planted a mdtherly kiss on her flushed cheek. Miss Johnson recovered her composure immediately. It Should be added that she piloted the Southern Sun for two hours during the long trip from Brisbane to Sydney.