TASMAN FLIGHT
SOUTHERN CROSS READY
(By Telegraph—tress Association.) • NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. The Southern Cross left New Plymouth at. 10.30 a.m. today for Auckland and the Ninety Mile Beach in order to Tjo ready to take off for the Tasman flight at 3 a.m. tomorrow. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith personally supervised the final overhaul of f.thc monoplane last night, .and Mr. J. |S.-."Vy. Stannago assembled, the tele[phonic radio set for broadcasts during the flight. : • .
The crew for the flight will be Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, Captain P. Or. Taylor, and Messrs Stannago and J. Percival. Mr. T. Pethybridge (engineer) -would have made the flight, (but the heavy air mail offering ■ has ■caused a reduction of the crew to four.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1934, Page 11
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119TASMAN FLIGHT Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1934, Page 11
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