BY AEROPLANE.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1928, Page 1

BY AEROPLANE.

CHURCH SERVICES FOR .MISSIONS SYDNEY, Jan. 3. The present year will witness two unusual development in aviation in Australia. First of all, there is the hip; experiment in aerial medical service, on which the Australian Inland -Mission, an organisation of the Presbyterian Church, is embarking, with Clpncurry, Queensland, as its base, about April next. The service will cover a vast area ten times the size of Tasmania, three times that of Victoria, and almost as big as New South Wales. '.The second development is also associated with the Church. The Church of England minister at Wileannia, tne Rev. Leonard Daniels, with a parish ■IO,OOO square miles in area, extended from New South Wales to the South Australian and Queensland borders, is to have an aeroplane in order to visit his scattered flock. During the last tour years Mr Daniels, who served as an airman in the war. has covered more than AO,OOO miles in bis parish by motor-car over incredibly bad roads and over hundreds of miles of practically waterless plain. The aeroplane will facilitate his work enormously. The journey to one town in his parish, which now takes the best part of a week, will occupy only an hour or two by air.