AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1930, Page 6

AVIATION

HILL’S ARRIVAL. • - ’■ IN '''AUSTRALIA. Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright, j ' " v '" v Dec. 10. The aviator, Hill has arrived here unexpectedly. He landed at 10,30 a.m., to-day, Ijarwin time; after having leftKoepang at 1.45 a.m., He started out with a goqd moon. , Hill ran into rain off Timor, but otherwise his trip over the water of four hundred and eight miles was uneyentfuL'‘ ’ 'He saw the steamer, Mfirella Nhen fie was nearing Darwin. He circled overhead and tried to drop a message, which, however, missed the ship. Her 'passengers were very excited. Referring to his crash, some time ago, Hill said that ,he would have Beaten Bert Hinkler’s record, but for that mishap. Ho had carried out all of hie own repairs with the assistance of an Air Force crew. He said he would try to sell liis aeroplane in Australia, but otherwise he' would- ■ ship it hack to England where ho would he due on his old job in March. Hill’s plans now comprise a flight to Brisbane and Sydney, and probably to Melbourne. Hill, left Darwin for Daly .Waters at ..midday to-day. DEPARTURE FROM DARWIN. vi '<>•• ••''-W"’ SYDNEY, Dee: 10.A Darwin message states that Hill, ■fop nirpian,..is a. tall, jovial young man, h“ty]aicdl “Cornstalk.” His aeroplane is' coloured blue and silver, and _ .it fa A named ‘tfane” -after his" wife, who -py- now awaiting his arrival- in B-ris- : 1 -Do too is most anxious to greet' her. , . , .... . # '’Hill ip wearing a gteen coat, a khaki siifrt, .green shorts, grey golf stockings, and black shoes. Before his departure for Daly Waters to-day, a local Aboriginal prisoner handed him a white nosegay for somebody down south. ‘ •' All of tlie goats were driven off the aerodrome before Hill hopped off. There was a larger crowd of the local people present to see him ..depart than saw''his arrival, which' was not .expected. ... v ....• . ‘ ' ?HIIiL’S PLANE DOWN. ONR RING DAMAGED. SYDNEY, Dee. 10. ' A later message received at Darwin states 'that Hill was forced clown behind the school at Pine Oreek. one RuhUffe'd r aiid fifty hides south-east •of Darybn. ■ fiilf itvas'not injured. One wing of bis plane was damaged, and it is . not known Whether he can repair it locally. _ s ."

N.Z. AERIAL MAILS. TfiE TENDERS. WELLINGTON, Dec.' 10. . Th e . Postipast,er.(^e n eral, rin reply to a .question, said that tenders. : have .been..received by- the Government -Fop-. the carriage of mails by air in New Zealand. Two tenders were from New Zealand concerns, and one came from Australia. There was the possibility of a fourth one from a New Zealand firm. He- added,’that h.e hoped" to have the matter finalised in the next few days.