TO FLY PACIFIC

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6278, 23 July 1921, Page 2

TO FLY PACIFIC

A.MPITION OK IAKLTKNANT I’ARK.R A.MK.iIK A TO A LSTI! ALI A . Lout. Purer, the woiTknown airman, tins piirehasod a iiiaohitic with the <ih. .prd of tonkin”, n flight nrotind Australia. Jle state, that he is hopeful o.‘ )»ei it” a hie to make a start on the Anstraijiin (light in ahoul ten days, The object of file flight is to raise money to eniihle him to lake part in the hi” international llighi probably in loss Lite Paeilie 11‘oni America to Australia. lin'e, the Dim producer. Ihk offered a prize ol f 1 1 1,(11. It I to the lir-t man ol is n \ ua-

(innaliu who i.meeeds in (.rossing the Paeilie eilhe, hy aeroplane or a'.rship. if n«>i, 100 laic when he ha. made Ins

arrangements. Lieut, Parer intends p>

be a competitor

On Ins Australian (light he will go from .Melbourne, to Adelaide, billow tlie transcontinental line to Perth round the roam hoc. td Port Darwin; then from the Northern Territory to Queensland, and inflowing the saint 1 route a.s that i'olljowed by bim a,ml the late Lieut. Macintosh in their old do llavilland. They will lly Irmn IJnsbane to Sydney. j on to .Melbourne and across the Straits, to Lanin eaicn. The distance covered j wi!,| he iO.inil> mihs.

; Lieut. Purer untie pule-, tluu the tour j will take from Lwo to three months. A, iheiv will lie nil need g, hurry tlie opportunity will he token io Him \ari--1.11- pbiees ami events n| 1 111 ere,-I . Adverting, to ihe I’ucilic flight. I/wit. Purer slates thu.t Ihe biggest dis'llllien no ln> covered in one flight \donldi he from Anierieu to I lonolnln--2-1(11) miles. Alter that he wold,) travel hv easy stages of. say, 1.21 HI miles. Id, won hi lie necessary to get a speeial machine for Mil. purpose of (his (light, and inquiries! were heiim made Irum de Jlna illand's. works with this ohjeei.