“WILL MAKE GOOD”

Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1929, Page 2

“WILL MAKE GOOD”

CAPTAIN FRANK MASK

HIS WIFE’S OPTIAIiSAI

Tin* wile of the Auckland airman win) hopes to flv fivjin Knglaiul to Australia and Now Zealand, Afr>; Frank Mase, returned to Auckland

by the Uliniaroa from Sydney. Mrs Muse originally left Auckland 1o await the arrival of her husband in Australia, but, owing to the delay caused by Captain Mase experiencing a minor crash on the first hop of'his long flight, she was compelled to come back by the Uliniaroa. , “My husband is as determined as ever to accomplish the task he lufs "set himself, and if he is xuccossiil, J hope to be in Sydney to greet him there,” said .Mrs Mase.’

In an article published in a Sydney newspaper. Mrs .Mase said that she was secure in her confidence that her husband wou.d make good—that she knew that all the crashes in the world wouldn’t have tfie power to alter him from trying again and again. Such mishaps would only make him more keen than ever. Knowing that, she was perfectly certain that it was only a matter of a little more waiting before she dashed out one day to greet him.

“The actual passing of an airman’s wife’s waiting time was.” said Mrs Mase, emphatically, “ a matter that depended on the Jiariiouar wife and her adaptability. Waiting for the return of anyone mattered wasn’t a pleasant joh. but it was one that the individual could make less unpleasant hv the cultivation of many interests. The speeding up of modern life provided women with the opportunity of making their lives as full and interesting, as in tile absence of their husbands, they might lie.” “Of course.” said Airs Mase, T am anxious when my husband is actually in tlio air. That is only natural, Wluit one really needs” /die concluded “is a little courage, a little ability to deceive even one’s self, and a very good deal of hope, I’iiilli ami optimism in one’s self as well as in one’s buslaid and bis wings.”