DELAYED SEVEN HOURS.
SOUTHERN CROSS AIRMEN.
MAY CANCEL FURTHER TOUR.
LEFT BLENHEIM AT 2 P.M.
STRONG WIND THIS MORNING.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
BLENHEIM, thie day.
The Southern Crosa airmen left Blenheim at two o'clock this nfternoon for Wigram Aerodrome. Flying conditions were unfavourable, the weather being cloudy and squally. The- airmen assembled at the aerodrome at 6.30 a.m. ready to hop off, but a strong south-westerly wind, almost a gale, sprang up while the machines were being tuned. The flight therefore was postponed till the wind moderated. The airmen were resolved to make every endeavour to reach Christchurch by to-night, and they will not lightly abandon their southern tour from Chriatchurch. Squadron-Loader Kings ford Smith last night said it might be necessary to cancel the southern tour, for there was a risk that, they would bo so delayed by storms in the South that their entire schedule for the Blenheim-Sydney flight would be upset.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 227, 25 September 1928, Page 8
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154DELAYED SEVEN HOURS. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 227, 25 September 1928, Page 8
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