FLYING

Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 January 1932, Page 5

FLYING

LONDON TO AUSTRALIA SMITH’S ADVENTURES. Press Assuihiflju Electric Telegraph—CopjTight KOEPANG, Monday. Kingsford Smith arrived on Sunday afternoon. He landed, despite a danger signal and stuck in soft, ground in the aerodrome, the result of continuous rain. The machine was dragged out of the bog into a harder patch after two hours’ work. The ground is not lit to permit a start yet, but may improve later to-day. TURNED BACK. BY BAD WEATHER. SYDNEY, Monday. The Amalgamated Wireless, Ltd., Darwin station radioed that Kingsford Smith turned back .to Koepang two hours after leaving owing to bad weather.

COLONEL BRINSMEAD. CONDITION IMPROVING. (Received Tuesday, 5.30 a.m.) SINGAPORE, Monday. The condition of Colonel Brinsmeadr is improving. He is able to take short motor runs and was anxious to fly to Australia with Kingsford Smith, but the doctors forbade him to do so. ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA. SUBSIDY WANTED. (Received Tuesday, 5.30 a.m.) SYDNSY, This Day. Sir Walter Nicholson, a director of Imperial Airways, is visting Australia in connection with a proposal to allow Imperial Airways to continue the Lon-don-India air service to Australia. He said he intended to ascertain whether the Commonwealth Government would provido a subsidy, with which the Karachi to Australia link was impossible. He is returning to England later through New Zealand. - BIG FLYING BOAT. CONTRACT CANCELLED. (Received Tuesday, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, Monday. On the ground of economy the Air Ministry has cancelled the contract for the big flying boat and work has ceased.