CLIPPER DUE TO-DAY

Evening Star, Issue 23682, 16 September 1940, Page 2

CLIPPER DUE TO-DAY

AWARUA ARRIVES FROM SYDNEY RECORD PASSENGER LIST [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September 15. On her way to Auckland on first regular passenger flight of the South Pacific air service, the Pan-American Airways’ American Clipper reached Noumea at 5.5 o’clock this afternoon from Canton Island. The Clipper is scheduled to leave Noumea to-morrow morning and to alight at Auckland in the afternoon. Captain. Kenneth Beer is in command. Several of the passengers, of whom there are 15 on the final stage of the flight, will continue to Australia by the Tasman Empire Airways’ service on Tuesday. Tho Clipper also has a quantity of mail and freight for Now Zealand and more for Australia. The following are among tho passengers:—Mrs Anna Register, Miss Ann Register, Miss Elizabeth Stuart, Miss Barbara Welch, Miss Clara Adams, Messrs F. Emerson, Melton Untermeyer, William Robinson, William Hock, Julius Rapoport, Harold Stuart, James M'Vittio, and Mulhcarn. Tho flying boat Awarua, with an exceptionally largo number of passengers as well as mail and freight, arrived from Sydney this afternoon. Tho Awarua carried 16 passengers, including an infant. Among them were several who will continue tho journey by air to America when the American Clipper leaves this week for San h raueisco.