IN THE AIR
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS. FOR YEAR 1931. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Receh ed this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, December 31. Reviewing 1931, the Society of British Aircraft constructors places Hinkler’s trans-Atlantic flight as second only to Stanifortlis and Boothman’s speed achievements ) as the year’s finest British feat. The Society praises the achievements of Scott, Mollison, Butler, Chichester and Broadments circumnavigation of Australia. It says the mischance of weather must not be allowed to overshadow the Southern Star’s flight to England in under a fortnight, heavily laden, which takes pride of place among commercial journeys on the Anglo-Australian route.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 December 1931, Page 6
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101IN THE AIR Hokitika Guardian, 31 December 1931, Page 6
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