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Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1933, Page 5

(SMITHY TO RETURN NEXT YEAR'. WONDERFUL HOSPITALITY IN N-Z. (Australian Press Association) (Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 27. Sir Charles Kings ford Smith states that the return flight was harder than the qutward one, though it was | shorter.’,{ « j ‘M am (bfctooming so familiar hvith the crossing of the Tasman that I plan to fly hack to Nbw Zealand next year t'o visit those towns I had to overlook this time,” the said. “The people are remarkably hospitable.” The remainder of the crew stepped ■from the plane as fre&h as though they had been for a short pleasure trip. Stannag e was enthusiastic about the two way communication die had maintained most 0 f the time with the three passenger ships, the Wanganella, Monowai, and Manama, which, incident, ally they did not see. SMITHY “MOBBED” BY THE CROWD INJURES LEG IN ESCAPE. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 27. ■Smithy dismissed th P flight briefly as an easy one, having the advantage of a following wind. Good time wars made, the journey taking 13 hours 40 minutes. When the airmen started to move from the plane to the clubhouse, the crowd took charge and fairly mobbed ’Smithy. Three policemen carried him to a friends house some distance away, crossing tw 0 fences, the second whereof was barbed wire, whereon Smith’s log was rather badly torn. The excited spectators mea:r f crowded rouriu the plane and pushed a number of holes through the fabric.

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