PRESENTATION TO MISS JEAN BATTEN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 306, 27 December 1937, Page 7

PRESENTATION TO MISS JEAN BATTEN

| N.Z. AERO CLUB TROPHY AVIATRIX NEEDS REST I LONDON, Dec. 23. Mr W. J. Jordan, High CommisI sioner for New Zealand, presented Miss Jean Batten with a trophy from the New Zealand Aero Club commemmorating her England-to-New Zea- . land flight last year. Miss Batten is obviously run down ; after a hectic round of functions and . specially requested an informal presentation at New Zealand House. The trophy is a silver globe suri mounted by a model of Miss Batten’s machine. It is set on a wooden base with a clock inset. Miss Batten is living quietly and i has no plans for the future. : LONG-DISTANCE FLIGHTS ' PLANS ON THE RECORD i MRS BERYL MARKHAM S INTENTIONS i Pe.’ F.eds Association. J AUCKLAND, Dec. 26. ! Plans for an early attack on the ; I long-distance air record were dis- I ■ j cussed by Mrs Beryl Markham, the | I I first woman to fly the Atlantic solo ; i from east to west, and one of the ■ | world’s most experienced women '(pilots, in an interview. Mrs Markham, whose home is in I Kenya, passed through Auckland on ’ the Mariposa on her way to Durban, ■ | via Australia. Slim, blonde and smart- - ly dressed, Mrs Markham, who has a young son at school in England, re- - vealed her hope of securing a suitable ■ aeroplane in which to attempt to ■ break one of the most coveted flight records. While in the United States she tried some of the most likely machines and has her heart set on a . > little Northrop that cruises happily at z over 200 miles an hour and is, she I said, “the most attractixe little bus . | I’ve ever handled!” NEW AIR ROUTE ? I II WOMAN TO ATTEMPT IT Received Dec, 24, 7 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 24. The Daily Mirror says that a Mayfair society woman, Mrs M. Kinge Farlow, granddaughter of the late p Lord Runciman, is preparing to blaze :• a new air route to Australia or the e Far East. Her departure has been de- ’• layed because of the difficulty of / equipping the machine during the re- ? armament rush. 3 She is the mother of a five-year-old i daughter.