SIR WARNERS MODESTY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20184, 28 June 1928, Page 2

SIR WARNERS MODESTY

SOUTHERN CROSS MESSAGES CREDIT TO LISTENERS. Air J. Warner, the wireless operator on the Southern Cross, whose hat and modesty have already become bywords of the historic flight, confessed himself quite at homo at Sydney when he was entertained at an informal reception by representatives of wireless interests and broadcasting companies. “All the same,” he sand, “1 don It think I'm altogether so deserving as you represent.” The remarkable feat of transmitting messages from all stages of the flight Air Warner dismissed as casually as he would have spoken of crossing a street. “I had a pretty good idea,” he rc- | marked, “that people in Australia j were anxious to keep in touch wit*. ! us, and know what was doing on the ' flight. From my experience with the i Dale flights and the ’planes that were lost then —I was on one of the destroyers searching for those ’planes— I thought I should take it upon myself to keep the world at large and those interested as closely in touch as possible. “Lt was very gratifying to know that you folk were so enthusiastic in picking up those signals. “In fact,” Air Warner added, amid laughter, “I ! think you fellows deserve half the credit, almost. It wouldn’t have been ; much use sending out the messages if you hadn’t been there to get them.” Mr Warner raised another laugh when lie admitted that if “that last night had, occurred on the way to Honolulu I don’t know if I would have come on or not. ’’