CENTAURUS AT SYDNEY
EPOCH-MAKING EVENT TO LEAVE FOR N.Z.. TO-DAY Received Dee. 24, 7 p.m. SYDNEY, Dec. 24. The Imperial Airways' Centaurus landed at Rose Bay, the new tlyinfcboat base at Sydney, at 8.40 a.m., from Brisbane. Thousands of people I around lite harbour and foreshores i.’itttl a first glimpse of the giant flyingI lies commander, Captain J. 77. '•Burgess, during an official welcome ibv lite .Minister of Defence, Mr li.orby, declared that. Rose Bay was Cm ideal base lor this type ot airI A party of Parliamentarians, including the Premier (Mr B. S. B Nievens) and the Lord Mayor, were i taken for a half-hour's Hight over the ’harbour anti city, which greatly imIpressed them. Mr Stevens described ’the Centaurus' visit as an epochi making event. I The Centaurus leaves for Nev, Zealand on Monday morning.
! TRANSTASMAN AIR SERVICE i DELAY IN Al (it RATION AUSTRALIA NOT TO BLAME I Received Dec. 24, 5.5 p.m. SYDNEY”, Dec. 21. 'Die Prime Minister (Mr J. A. Lyons) denied suggestions by the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage (Prime Minister of New Zealand) that Australia was ; responsible for delay in lhe jnaugur?.j lion of the transtasman air service. Mr Lyons said that the CommonI wealth was no more to blame than , the Dominion.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 306, 27 December 1937, Page 8
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