AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1929, Page 6

AVIATION

OWEN’S PROPOSED FLY

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

LONDON, March 12

The Air Ministers test of Aloir and Owen’s aeroplane was satisfactory. The airmen have arranged exhaustive trials for to-morrow. They expect to leave Lvmpiie for Australia on Friday or Saturday morning.

WILKINS IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, March 12

Sir TI. Wilkins has arrived aboard the liner Ebro. He was greeted hv his fiancee Suzanne Bennett. (Wilkins is filled with enthusiasm over his recent trip and declared the recent air voyage over the Antarctic yas merely a preliminary, the most important results of which were the mapping of a now coastline for part of the Antarctic continent and also the discovery that Graham Land is not part of a continent hut an island; also the location of a spot for Antarctic meteorological base. Wilkins was later escorted to City Hall by a squad of motor cycles' police and officially welcomed to the city by Mayor Walker. A silent hut admiring crowd witnessed the ceremony.

WILKINS RECOUNTS ITTS EXPERIENCES.

AMBITIOUS PLANS

NEW YORK. March 13,

Sir H. Wilkins stated he would go to Washington to-night to make visits there, and Tie intends to retire for a time to see his friends. He gave a summary of his experiences of the past six months. He told how the« work at Deception Base had been made easy by the presence of the Norwegian whale industry. He said he picked a point at the eastern extremity of Grahamland Islands for the fii'st meteorological station. This point was so situated that tlie atmospheric movements northward from the South Pole would reach it without disturbance from any highlands. He intends to explore the region between Grahamland and Ross Sea. “Bv 1933,” lie said, ”1 expect to have at least twelve meteorological stations functioning in the area which will be financed by all the nations south of Equator. The full value of these stations will probably not be appreciated before ten or fifteen years are none and after much comparison with “the records of the stations similarly located in the Arctic. Our expedition is by no means ended, not will it be for many years.”