OFFER TO HINKLER.
FOR FLIGHT ACROSS TASMAN,
Sydney, March 13
Sir Benjamin Fuller has offered to finance Captain Hinkler should he care to make a flight across the Tasman Sea. Hinkler has not yet had time to consider the offer.
Meanwhile Hinkler is being royally feted at all engagements arranged in his honour. He was tendered a civic reception, at Avhich the City Commissioners presented him Avith a cheque for £933, collected by the newspaper “Guardian.” A presentation Avas made by a representative girl in an aeroplane flying ' above Government House. At a gala theatre performance Hinkler was presented with a cheque for £6OO, the first instalment of a collection by the “Evening News.” He leaves for Canberra to-morrow. AIR CROSS AWARDED BY THE , KING. Rugby, March 12.
The Aii - Ministry has announced that, the King has approved the aAvard of the Air Force Cross to Captain Bert Hinkler, in recognition of the distinguished service rendered to aviation by his recent flight in a light ’plane from England to Australia.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3767, 15 March 1928, Page 2
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170OFFER TO HINKLER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3767, 15 March 1928, Page 2
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