NEW ZEALAND'S HOSPITALITY

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

NEW ZEALAND'S HOSPITALITY

AIRMEN APPRECIATIVE. PRIME MINISTER THANKED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Wednesday

The Prime Minister has received the following letter from Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith and Flight-Lieutenant Ulm:— "We desire to express to you and through you to the Government and people of New Zealand our very sincere thanks for the warm welcome and many courtesies extended to us during our stay in your country. We particularly appreciate the honour you have conferred upon us in making tfc the guests of the Government during our stay, and also your courtesy in placing Air Force machines at our disposal and free telegraphic facilities. Also, we particularly thank you for the services of Mr. D. Ardell, of the Internal Affairs Department, whose presence with us throughout our tour of New Zealand has helped us very considerably. "We thank you also for the sincere manner in which you have expressed appreciation of our work and desire to assure you that if our flight across the Tasman has done even the smallest thing to further cement the friendship existing between the Commonwealth of Australia and your Dominion, we are more than amply repaid. "Your wonderful generosity in granting us the sum of £2000 is appreciated to the fullest, and we would like you to know, sir, that grants such as these make it possible for us to continue with our self-appointed task of furthering the science of aviation and air navigation. We would like to assure you also that we shall take crreat pleasure in informing our Prime Minister, our Government, and the people of Australia of the wonderful welcome and many courtesies that have been extended to us in New Zealand. and in advance on their behalf would assure you that all that has been done for us here will be greatly appreciated bv them also."