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Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1932, Page 4

Interest in the attempts to- reduce the record for flying from various joints will be stirred by the news that Amy Johnson has left Capetown on an attempt to lower the record to C'roydon, Era-land; that the German airman, Hans Bertram, has left Australia in an attempt to lower the time of a flight to England, and 'that early next- month Sir Kingsford Smith is to make another flight between Australia- and New Zealand, across the Tasman fiea-. Amy Johnson, it will l;e remembered recently broke the record of the time of the flight from Croydon to Capetown, that had previously been held by her husband, and this in spite of a mechanical breakdown that caused her a loss of nine hours in her flying time. Even then she was able to reduce the record by some ten hours. The course of her flight will he closely followed and the best of good wishes will go with the intrepid airwoman in her great effort. The German airman, Bertram, did not have such an auspicious experience on his outward journey and though he was able to land on Australian soil he had a very unpleasant trial becoming lost in the northern wilds and having a most- trying experience until he* was found by a search party, afier word of his whereabouts had been supolied by blacky. His companion is still suffienng from the effects of that experience. These two attempts on the two different records will cause much interest, which the coming Tasman Sea flight will increase as the time for. the hop-off comes to pass, and there- will he a general g.co-J wish expressed for their several successes in the objective being attempted.