FLYING-BOAT ARRIVES
CENTAURUS AT DARWIN [ British Official Wireless.] RUGBY, Dec. 17. The Imperial Airways flying-boat Centaurus has arrived at Darwin on her test flight to Australia form England. "NOTHING THRILLING" THE CAPTAIN'S COMMENT DARWIN, Dec. 18. When the flying-boat Centaurus arrived, Captain Burgess said tl?ere was nothing untoward and nothing thrilling during the flight from England. Mr. Ivan Palmer, who sailed last year from New Zealand to Singapore with Mr. Dwight Long in the ketch Idle Hour, is accompanying the flyingboat as Press representative. The Centaurus arrives at Sydney next Friday and leaves for Auckland the following Monday. The Centaurus left Southampton on December 3. She will spend Christmas at Sydney and will fly to Auckland on December 27. Her subsequent itinerary will be: Wellington December 31; Christchurch, January 1; Dunedin. January 2. She will return to Auckland on January 3 and to Sydney on January 10. She will leave for England at the end of January. The Centaurus carries a crew of five under the command of Captain J. W. Burgess, an old Wellington boy and the youngest son of Captain J. W. Burgess, of lhe Government lighthouse .ship Matai.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 301, 20 December 1937, Page 7
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