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THE AEROPLANE

JOURNEY CONTINUED TO-DAY

The aviators, Captain White and Mr ;Mackay, who returned yesterday afternoon after an unsuccessful attempt to fiy over tlje Southern Alps to Canterbury, owing to the heavy, clouds in the hills, reported that they had reached an altitude of 10,000 feet without being able to rise above the clouds, and so deemed it. advisable to return to their landing place at Hokitika. This morning at 7.30 o’clock with a clearer skyline in the hill country the aviators set off on their journey again and soon disappeared from sight in tho east. The condition ifor flying were excellent this morning. The aeroplane travelled up over Koiterangi and crossed in the vicinity of the Hokitika Gorge, over Mathias Pass. (By Telegraph—Per Press A.ssociation) TBIA.RU, August 14. Captain Trevor White of the New Zealand Airways, flying a new plane, hopped off from Hikitika at 7.50 this morning and crossed the Alps via Whitcombe Pass, arid landed at Saltwater Creek at 9.30.

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Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1931, Page 5

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THE AEROPLANE Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1931, Page 5

THE AEROPLANE Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1931, Page 5

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