AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1931, Page 5

AVIATION

AIR MAILS LANDED. AT DARWIN. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph. —Co py right.] DARWIN, April 26. Tin* .Southern Cross arrived lmr f , at 2.45 Saturday afternoon from Knepaug. Smithy landing perfectly. He was warmly welcomed. The mails were transferred ceremoniously to the Post Office, whence they will lie loaded into a Quanta.s plane. Knigsford Smith was warmly welcomed by a large crowd, who regarded tile arrival of the first English air j mail on Anzne Day as specially signifi-i | cant. The mail consisted of nineteen ] bags ordinary, and one bag freight. Kingston! Smith said that postal red tape at Kogoang. where telegrnphiet traffic outside the usual hours was impossible without authority from Soul'abaya, caused delay. LONDON, April 2-5. The aeropalne City of Coventry took off into a half gale and blinding rain with tip. second Australian air mail, consisting only of five thousand lettens, also as freight a parcel of tools for making gramophone records, and a consignment of condensed milk. AUSTRALIAN MAILS FOR LONDON. SYDNEY, April 25. The plane Southern San, which is inaugurating the Loudon bound air mail, left Sydney on Friday morning with 21,798 letters and packages from Australian States, including 8,060 Victorian letters, and also 347 letters from New Zealand.. Additional mail matter is being collected in Brisbane, where the aeroplane arrived on Friday, after lunch. A Quantas machine will carry the mails to Darwin. AIR COLLISION. RUGBY, April 23. The Air Ministry announced that Air Vice-Marshal Felton Volsev Ilolt. air officer commanding the fighting area for the aerial defence of Great Britain and Flight Lieutenant Moody, were killed at Sealmrst Park, Sussex, to-day, when a Moth ol the No. 24 Squadron, piloted bv Flight Lieut Moody, collided with a Siskin of the No. 43 Squadron, the sole occupant of which escaped injury. Air Vice-Marshal Holt joined the Royal Flying C-orpn in 1913. Tn 1928, he was appointed Director of I eclmical Development at the Air Ministry.

AUSTRALIAN AIR MAILS. ACTIVITIES AT DARWIN. (Received 11.40 n.m.l DARWIN. April 27. Kingsford Smith in the “Southern Crofts” hopes to leave this, morning on the second trip across the Timor Sea with the first Australian air mail taking it as far as Akyab. He stops at Koepang, Sourabayii, Singapore, Victoria Point and Rangoon. The local post office has almost ran out of stamps and the staff arc workincr without a break since three o clock on Saturday afternoon. Over eight thousand letters were posted locally. Kin"sford Smith will return direct with the second English mail and probably make another trip to Ahya with the second Australian mad.