AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1930, Page 5

AVIATION

LANCASTER’S SEARCH.

1.0 tiitod Press Association—By Eiectrio Telegraph.—Copyright. J

NEW YORK, December 1

Captain Lancaster is en route to Miami to search for Mrs Keith Miller. He has wired the British Ambassador at Washington, asking that British naval ships be sent to search for the missing aviatrix. He is also asking that airways officials at Miami be sent to assist.

MR MILLER HOPEFUL

SYDNEY, Dec. 2,

Mistress Keith Miller’s husband who is a “Melbourne Herald” journalist and is at present holidaying in Sydney is still'hopeful that the missing aviatrix may be found alive. He thinks she may have landed in the Everglades of Florida or been picked np by a small boat.

MRS MILLER SAFE

(Received this day at 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 1

According to a telegram received by her mother the aviatrix, Mistress Keith Miller is safe.

THRILLING FORCED LANDING

(Recwived this day at 12.25. p.m.) NEW YORK, Deo. 1.

A message from Nassau (Bahamas) states Mistress Miller arrived to-day. She made a thrilling forced landing in the gale on Friday at Andras Island in Bahamas,

Mr? 0. S, Beveridge stated she received a telegram from her daughter from Nassau saying she was safe and asking friends to be notified.

U.S.A. SERVICE' OVER ATLANTIC WASHINGTON, November 29.

A definite step towards the inauguration of a trans-Atlantic air mail service here, was taken by the Post Office Department to-day. The bids will be opened on December 29, for an air mail route from New York by Norfolk (Virginia) or Charleston (South Carolina) and then by Hamilton, Bermuda and the Azores, or some other practicable route, to ; a point in Europe to be designed by the U.S.A. Postmaster-General, Mr Brown; the return to be made over the same route, and the contract to run for ten years, the period beginning on June 1, next year.

WOMAN FLIER.

NEW YORK

December 1

A message from Burbank (California) states Ruth Nichols Ryeney, a society woman aviatrix who set the women’s trans-continental speed record formerly held by Mrs Miller, arrived here to-day from New York. Her flying time was seventeen hours three minutes. She flew from Ivingmen, Arizona to-day and used a" large cabin monoplane.