UNEVENTFUL TRIP.
HONOLULU CLIPPER. LEAVES TO-MORROW MORNING. " It was just a routine trip completed without incident," stated Captain W. J. Barrows, who was in command of PanAmerican Airways' Honolulu Clipper, which arrived at 2.29 p.m. yesterday "on the conclusion of her flight from San Francisco. The last stage of the flight from Noumea had been covered in 6 hours 59 minutes, which was well within the average schedule time. Nine passengers were carried, of whom seven are bound for Australia. Most of them will leave by Tasman Empire Airways' flying boat to-morrow. The passengers were:—Messrs. Keith Office, Australian Counsellor in Washington; V. Jurgens, a iiewsreel cameraman; W. RothfieM, of Melbourne.; C. McKay, of Melbourne; Floyd Soto, of Los Angeles; Ellis Wackett, of Melbourne; F. J. Cordall, of San Francisco; and R. M. Wilson and P. W. Farley, two students at Yale University.
The Clipper is scheduled to leave on her return to San Francisco to-morrow morning. Her passengers will include several who are due to arrive on the flying boat Awarua from Sydney this afternoon.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 230, 27 September 1940, Page 3
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175UNEVENTFUL TRIP. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 230, 27 September 1940, Page 3
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