AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1930, Page 5

AVIATION

MATTHEWS’ PROGRESS. [United Press Association.—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.] .•Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) RANGOON, Sept. 25. Matthews arrived and refuelled at Aliya b. En route be encountered foul weather over the whole journey from Calcutta to Rangoon. ; ! * f TO FLY TO AUSTRALIA. ' , ’ LONDON, Sept. 25. ; .Mr Barnard at a ■luncheon in honjour of Winifred Spooner- announced |lie was flying to Australia with Kfngsi ford Smith on October 7th. They hoped to lower the record. ; A SOLO FLY. . LONDON, Sept. 25. i Mrs Victor Bruce loft Heston this morning on a solo flight in a Blackburn Bluebird. Her destination is Tokyo. She expects to reach 'Budapest or Vienna to-night.

AIR MAIL. (Received +his day, at 9.40, a.m.V : ' LONDON, September 25. • Ams f ei‘dam.advice states:—The first fortnightly mail plane left for Batavia to-day piloted by Vandyke, It carried 23,132 letters. AIR MAIL SERVICE. / SUCCESSFULLY TESTED. ■ (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) OTTAWA, September 25. The new Canadian air mail service, by which European boat mails- will be flown approximately a third of their journey, was successfully tested to-day when two seaplanes landed in the straits at Belle Isle from Quebec city. The planes transferred half a ton of mail from the Empress Australia, saving 48 hours.