NO MORE "FUNCTIONS."

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 229, 27 September 1928, Page 8

NO MORE "FUNCTIONS."

SOUTHERN CROSS AIRMEN.

BACK TO THEIR BUSINESS.

NEW jit ALAND PEOPLL' THANKED

i the ioihwia.fr Htesfsajje has been eent t ty;:. the,.editor ..ot the/'Auckland S,tar" ;by--fbe. co-eomno.anders of-the Southern '•'Cross-:'--* • - r ••■ ; *'Deac -. "Sjjk. :-rr We would esteem tit .a. ! i>voup .IP you Will allow in your .columns to show otir'appreciation; to, the people of New; Zealand. We Visji to again tha-uk th*jpeopfe .Zealand for the magnificent Welcome;., rwe have .been, given .tbjoughpitt our stay, and convey our SjSmeere. regref* ' a.£' Laving been unable •to visit other centre*."' • ■ • ' ■ •_%'%> "received advic* from Dfr. , Qpywunifnt meteorologist, that there was a possibility 'ftf aur having reasonably, fair Weather :,oOnditions for oar return "<traros<-Taeman jflight during next week, and in view,of tlii* and the fact that -some taree or four day* be spent in testing our ■equipment prior to'taking off for Ausitralia, ii.ia quite impossible for us to Attend ajij- further functions. : "We also regret that if is impossible ior Uβ titfc personally anew]er the laet (batch of aome 2000 or 3000 congratulatory Tueseages Which have reached us since oar return to Cliriatchurch. However,, wet are making provision for to be answered for us during the next , week'orrtwrt. .'Wherever we have been. \ threragfifiqiilt s'e-w' , Zealand we have been received riisis.t''eitthußiaaticaily and hoaipitaWv. • Aleo 'jhay we, through your columns, thank the Press as a whole 'for the courtesy we 'have received th; ugh their hand*. Again ; thanking the people 'uf New Zealand for their liospitdlity. we are, yours truly,'C. King«ford. JSmitii,. C.. T. 1 , . Uh«, co-eoniman-ders Southern Crosc"