FLIGHT COMMEMORATED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 223, 20 September 1928, Page 8

FLIGHT COMMEMORATED.

RED GUMS PLANTED. BY KINGSFORD SMITH'S PARTY.

Sqiiadron-Loader Kingsford Smith and his party visited Point Chevalier school shortly after 4 p.m. yesterday, in the course of a busy afternoon. The Mayor (Mr. G. Baildon) introduced the visitors to a large gathering of children and their parents. Mr. S. G. Crook Cain (chairman of the committee) welcomed the visitors *nd referred to the impetus the Tasman flight would give to aeroplane work in New Zealand. Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith, Flight-Lieutenant Ulm and Mr. T. H. McWilliam each responded to the hearty welcome tendered, and referred to the happy, smiling faces of the children. Flight-Lieutenant Ulm said that at the request of the Education Department, Mr. Kingsford Smith and himself had agreed to write something for the "N.Z. School Journal" about the flight across the Tasman Sea. The airmen then planted five trees in the school grounds—three Australian red flowering gums, a totara and a puriri. Afterwards they autographed a scroll which had been prepared to commemorate their flight and the visit to the school. Afterwards the party was accorded enthusiastic receptions by the Officers' Club and the Auckland Club.