AVIATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1928, Page 3

AVIATION.

OFF FOR HAWERA. Australian Press Assn.—United Service WELLINGTON, Sept. 18. About two hundred people witnessed the departure of the Tasman flyers from Tientham this morning in the three Bristol Fighters about 10 o’clock. Without any •formality or fuss, the airmen took their seats and a few minutes later they were on tlicir way to Hawera. PASSED OVER FOXTON. FOXTON, Sept. 18. Tn response to a request from the Chairman of the School Committee, tlio Tasman fliers passed over Foxton in their flight to Auckland. They came low down over the school and responded to cheers from the assembled children by waving their hands.

WANGANUI GREETS THE ’PLANES WANGANUI, Sept. 18. Tlie approach of the three planes was signalled to 'Wanganui by tbo prolonged ringing of the firobell and the sounding of sirens and whistles, and all points of vantage were fully occupied. The ’planes, flying low, circled over Wanganui for nearly ten minutes, covering all points of the city and then headed 'for Hawera. ARRIVAL AT HAWERA. HAWERA, Sept. 18.

Kingsford Smith and party arrived here at 12.21 from Trcntliam, on route to Auckland, they were welcomed at the racecourse by a large concourse from all over Taranaki, accorded a civic reception and were entertained at lunch by the chairmen of local bodies of the province. The planes refuelled and tbo party loft in the afternoon for their .northern destination. “COTA DI MILANO.” ROME, Sept. 17. .The “Citta Li Milano” has left King’s’ Bay, Spitsbergen, en route for Rome.

FLY IN PROGRESS. LONDON, Sept. 15. Storck, cabled oil 11th. Sept., left Southampton on a flight round the world. He has already travelled round the gobe 11 times, though this is his first attempt in an aeroplane. Flying a thirty horsepower Avian from. Paris, he goes to Egypt and India, China, Japan, crossing the Pacific via Aleutian Islands and the Atlantic via Newfoundland and Greenland.