RECORD CRUISE

Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1929, Page 3

RECORD CRUISE

IX TUI-MOTORED PLANE

NEW YORK, April I),

Mrs Miller, the avialrix, has announced tli’ut she lias made definite plans for a' trans-Atlantic tlight with Lancaster and Eyre (as cabled on July Mst. and .'September 2fsth. last). Six' mis just secured her private pilots license. These fliers intend to take off from I.os Angeles in a tri-nuitorod cabin monoplane, which is being built for them there. They intend Hying to New York and thence to London and hack, touching at New York and at Los Anegelcs. The fliers hope, if their plans materialise. and their machine proves adequate, to continue on to Australia from the Pacific coast, after negotiating the Atlantic both ways.

Mrs .Miller says: “The purpose of the flight will be to demonstrate the reliability of the tri-moLored type ol plane and to observe the meteorological conditions.”

Their machine, which is now about half completed, is of all-metal construction. It has a 781 t. wing spread, a cruising speed of 100 miles per hour, a fuel capacity of 1700 gallons, two Wriglit-Whirlwind motors of 225 horse power each, and one l’rntt- Whitney Hornet motor of 550 horse-fiower. “1 do not know that We have any that you could altogether call new features. I control the Child Welfare Department and that principal dcfmrtnre ', : n that department lias been the establishment ol an exceedingly fine training farm at 5 am '), on ilie iriigation area, where we have from 150 to 200 hoys on what was originally the experimental farm. These hoys, mostly from 10 to 18 years of age, are selected from flu* delinquents, and are being trained for farm work. Perhaps the most important stop forward in the policy of tlie Education Department is the establishment of a Teachers’ '1 raining College at A i midale. The permanent college buildings are being erected, but about 140 students are already in training, and it is hoped to train eventually at burnt 400 teachers per annum at this centre. Another site iias been selected in the southern part of the State at Wngga, where we hope to launch a similar enterprise.

“The most significant feature in regard to this development is that our system oi education in Now South. Wales has hitherto been extremely centralised, and the* establishment of Touchers’ Trailing Colleges in Liu* country ..districts is a big breakaway from the old system. We hope ultimately to make them affiliated University Colleges. You have not got in New Zealand a big metropolis like Sydney. IniL we. on the other band, have not got your big country towns. That is wliat strikes the looker-on m New Zealand. We have no .big population eon l res beyond Sydney and Broken 11 ill,-lienee, no doubt., the extreme centralisation that lias obtained hitherto.”