AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1928, Page 3

AVIATION

i.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) AI It .MAX'S DELAY. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) pi- DAK WIN, Ala rcli Id. p_ Disappointment was expressed at m Lancaster’s delayed departure from Koopang. Great- |ireparations were i- made lor his arrival. 5 ! IvOFPAXG, .March 17. i, Lancaster reports terrific rains Hooded the landing ground. The Red n Rose is unable to leave for Darwin on j .Sunday. He hopes to get away on .Monday. LONDON*, -March 17. s Correction.—Air Viec-.Mar.shal I, Sir j Higgins states plans are going apace for no fewer than a dozen trans-Atlau- , tie flights. A PRIEST’S STATEMENT. f“ Sydney Sun” Cables.] (Received this day at 9 a.in.) LONDON, March 18. Father Arensen, priest of Grantham, ' tells how Mi.ss Mackay, who was a 1 recent convert to Catholicism, with J Hineholiffe, attended services at the ( HnuTi on Sunday and Monday, and 1 at 5 o’clock on Tuesday morning AI i.ss ( .Mackay woke him, apparently deeply conscious of the risk she was taking, 1 in the Atlantic flight, and alone they took Holy Communion in the dimly * lit church. He gave her lii.s blessing > r kneeling under the crucifix. She was * obviously excited and deeply affected by the ceremony. She accompanied him to liis study to say good-bye and J told him a. secret before departing to join ITinehcliffe and the others in the waiting car outside. T'l