THE TASMAN FLIGHT

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1931, Page 5

THE TASMAN FLIGHT

AT GILLESPIES BEACH.

News from Wolmka this afternoon states that the aeroplane of Mr Guy Menzies was seen from Gillespies Beach on Wednesday at 2 p.m. hv .Mr T. Bagiev. The airman flew very low down and circled round, calling out —“I want to land.”

Mr Bagiev called hack hut the plane was soon too far away for him to he hoard. The airman circled round and Mr Bagiev pointed in the direction of Welieka, where there are good landing grounds. The aeroplane (which •Mr l’agley claims to be the first in New Zealand to see) then moved off in the direction of Welieka hut then went further north.

The plane was seen in. the distance from the Welieka Hosted, but did not come near there, travelling northwards.

Mr Baylev, fearing a mishap had happened walked to Weheka in the afternoon to report, and then heard the news that the machine had landed at Hnrilmri.

THE AIRMAN’S EXPERIENCES. (.By Telegraph—Per Press Association DUNEDIN, January 8. Shooting kangaroos from his twenty thousand mile flight over Austin flu and a crash on the golf links at Sydney are among the adventures of the airman Guy Merodes, A Dunedin lady who knows Menzies and his family well, states he is 22 years of age the son of a Mncquarrie Street specialist, and grandson of a former Postmaster General of Austral-

Discouraged by his people from broadsiding. Menzies rede on the cinder track as Don Kave.

In 1929 be and pilot Molloy did an Australian business flight of 20 thousand miles near the Queensland borderThey took up passengers shooting kangaroos, from the air. with successful results.

Mduties crashed in a Gipsy Moth when taking off from Orunga golf linns in December 1929.