GARDEN’S FLIGHT.

Wairarapa Age, 6 November 1930, Page 5

GARDEN’S FLIGHT.

MAY TRY TASMAN CROSSING NEXT. an unheralded arrival IN AUSTRALIA. MEMBER OF SCOTTISH FAMILY. SYDNEY, November 5. The New Zealand airman, Oscar Garden, who has reached Australia, unheralded and unsung, after eighteen days from England, is a member of a Scottish family who settled in New Zealand after the ■war. The aviator will probably attempt a flight across the Tasman soon. No one was present to meet him when he landed at Three Mile, Wyndham. The previous night he camped with blacks at Bima. LONG HOPS. OVER TREACHEROUS DESERT COUNTRY. (Received Wednesday, 9 p.m.) SYDNEY, November 5. The aviator, Oscar Garden, who is described as a casual sort of fellow, sent word to friends that he was leaving Wyndham this morning and was due at Alice Springs, in Central Australia, to-night. He arrives in Sydney to-morrow night, which means very long hops over treacherous desert country; Gfifiien is the first of the to Australia airmen to land at Wyndham. Leading pilots say this is a much more ticklish proposition than landing at Darwin. AT ALICE SPRTjroa LANDING IN THE DARK. (Received This Day, 1.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, November 5. The OTlste*, OSijfif Uafasii, imved at Alice Springs to-night in the darkHess. (The Vacuum OR Company, Ltd., has received the followine cablecrnm from Garden: “Plume and Mobiloil gave remarkably good Vacuum service has been excellent throughout and very much appreciated.” Supplies of Flume anil MoHloil were made avaiia_le at all points along the route at &sca< Sarden ’s rggtiast. TEe Vacuum Company were fidvigdd y esterriiiy' that Garden left Wyndham early that morning for Alice Springs and will probably make Sydney to-day. This will be the first occasion on which any ’plane has flown direct from Wyndham to Alice Springs, over particularly rough and dangerous country. The Vacuum Company has received a cablegram from Gardea’s mother reading: “Bravo! Congratulations and love.”) '