SUNDAY FLYING
NO ACTION AGAINST “SMITHY.”
INTENTION WAS NOT THERI
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WELLINGTON, February 16. For a uj iSideraole time the members of various Aero Clnbs have been 'onrerned by periodic police prosecutions against pilots making passenger flights on Sundays. There wri? a considerable stir -, at: New Plymouth one Sunday when ..the -police took the N name of -Sir Charles Kings ford Smith X and some of his assistants. A story >, reached Australia that h e had been arrested. ... -
As the result of this, a telegram was ,-ent- by Mr. G. ■M. Sponce, president of the N.Z. Aei’o Club, Blenheim . to Mr Fortbes protesting against the police taking, action against .Sir Charles Kings ford Smith.
Mr Forbes, in reply, has telegraphed : “Have had inquiries made regarding th e subject matter of youir telegram. 1 find that there never was any intention on the part of the police to prosecute Air Commodore ,Sir Charles Kingsfo,rd Smith for Sunday flying, nor is any such prosecuting proposed. (Sigh- "'\ J J ed) G. W. Forbes.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1933, Page 4
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173SUNDAY FLYING Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1933, Page 4
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