SEEING ENGLAND BY AIR

Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1929, Page 6

SEEING ENGLAND BY AIR

Americans .villi little time to spare will in full.re be able to see Britain in three days (writes our London coiiv.-.-.. . i'ians have been completes to a.low United States visitors to go by air from Southampton to the spots associated with George W ashington, Abraham Lincoln, Penn, Shakespeare Burns and the Piigram Fathers rounding off the tour with a flight to Croydon to catch the aeroplane connection for the Continent of Europe. “It- will be possible,” said Air L. A. do L. Moredith the newly appointee secretary of the Travel Association of Great Britain and Ireland, in an interview, “for our American visitors to be met at the landing stage and to he shown more of Great Britain within a few days than has hitherto been possible in a fortnight. The touis of two, three, four and seven days now being planned will bo available aitei the London Air Park- opens this summer. The trips will include flights to the churchyard at Stoke' Doges, commemorated by the poet Gray in bis elegy, and to the association of its name with their own Broadway, but chiefly because the village, with its old inn, is reputed across the Atlantic to he the prettiest in England. Under the proposed arrangement Americans will bo able to induce Scotland in their sight-seeing. At present not many of them have the time to go to the IVossachs and t.u Burns Country, but that will bo a vorv different proposition when they can got to Edinburgh between breakfast and lunch.”