AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1930, Page 5

AVIATION

MRS MILLER’S STORY,

[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. J

NEW YORK, December 2

The story of her forced landing on a barren Bahaman Island, as related on Monday night by Mrs Keith Miller } was brought to Nassau by a fishing boat from Andros I?land. It was at that island that she landed on Friday.

Mrs Miller said that she ran into a heavy gale shortly after she hopped off on Friday.- The compass on her plane was at fault., .and she was blown badly off her course. The severity of the weather and a lack of gasoline forced her to land in Andros Island in the bush five miles at the back of Kemp’s Bay. On Andros Island she walked to Kemp’s Bay, where she was given food..and shelter. Commissioner Forsyth, at Andros Island, helped her to obtain a small boat, which brought her to Nassau. Her plane is undamaged, and she hopes to fly to Maimi on Tuesday.

AIRS MILLER’S TRIP

NEWSPAPER RIGHTS,

(Received this day at 8 a.tn.)

VANCOUVER, Dec. 2

•It Is understood Captain Lancaster who flew to Australia with Mrs Miller has been in touch with the associated press, whose. officiate announce they declined to pay him £4OO sterling for newspaper rights of Mrs. Miller’s sensational story of a forced landing on the barren Bahaman Island.

REQUEST FOR PETROL. MIAMIFLA, December 1. The Nassau agent of the Pan-Ameri-can Airways on Monday night, by radio, requested fuel for Mrs Keith Miller’s plane which is not damaged. Captain Lancaster said that he would leave early on Tuesday in a chartered plane with a mechanic and fuel for Mrs Miller’s plane.

AIRS AIILLER’S STORY

A ROCKY EXPERIENCE.

(Received this dav at 10 a.m.) HAVANA, Dec. 2

Mrs Keith Miller told the following story to-day:—“A terrific gale '.blew ine off the course Somewhere between Havana and the mainland. Then the compass went out of order and I flew for seven horn's looking for a place to land. The gas began to run low and T became panicky. I did not know whether I was in the Gulf of Mexico or over the Atlantic.

“It was a fearful relief when I saw n spot of land. I thought it was Florida but it was a. village called KhiiapS Bay, Andras island. “There tvns a terrific wind, hut I name in with the full, mot<W, stalled her, and then pancaked into thick hush. I looked over the ship and it was 0.K.. so J started and walked. It was sixteen miles to the first telegraph lsrtotron. ’I walked •nifi.it over the rockiest beach I ever saw. My feet were blistered ,and I was mighty tired.”

GARDEN AT DUNEDIN. DUNEDIN, December 2

Oscar Garden arrived at the Otago Aero Club’s ground at 6.30, and was welcomed by Air H. E. Barrowelough (President of the Club) and the Deputy-Mayor (Air J. J. Clark). He expressed pleasure at being once again in Dunedin, where be bad first settled in New Zealand, living here for six months before going north.

AERO CLUB’S DECISION

PARIS, December 2

The Aero Clubs of Britain, France and Italy, after a conference upheld the British rejection of Franco-ltalian entries for 26th July. They fixed the •deposit at the original sum of £I6OO sterling, the race to be held qyer fifty kilometres in August and September "031. The venue is not announced.