PACIFIC FLYERS
TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND,
The Pacific flyers arrived at Sydney on Sunday afternoon from Brisbane and were accorded a wonderful reception. They will arrive at Melbourne to-morrow, and immediately afterwards will lly to New Zealand. After that they will continue their circumnavigation of the globe over oceans hitherto untraversed by aeroplane or airship, without taking unnecessary risks, which Captain Smith and Mr. Ulm assert cause accidents which are harmful to aviation. Captain Smith’s parents are accompanying their son, Kingsford, on the flight to Melbourne.
The following cable message has been sent to Captain Kingsford Smith by the Canterbury Progress League and the Canterbury Aviation Club: —
Captain Kingsford Smith, Sydney.—Congratulations on your magnificent achievement. We are gratified to learn your intention to fly the Tasman. Canterbury cordially invites you to make Christchurch, where special facilities exist, your landing place. We assure you of hearty welcome. The “Southern Cross” will in all probability land at the Soekburn Aerodrome, Christchurch, if the f’asman flight is made. CAPTAIN SMITH’S SPEECH. Auckland, June 11. Speaking from station ‘2BL, Sydney, on Sunday night, Captain Kingsford Smith thanked his unseen audience for the welcome they had given him and his companions. “This is a very wonderful day,” he said. “The most wonderful day in my life. You all know what it is to have ambitions, to cherish them tor years, until it seems they can be nothing more than dreams, and then suddenly to have them fulfilled. For eight years I have cherished the ambition to fly the Pacific. To-day it is realised. It is with heartfelt gratitude that I thank you for the way in which you have welcomed me home. 1. am particularly happy to be able to speak to you from station 2BL. I understand that many of you listening in to the station followed us last night as we came through the storms from Suva, and after last .night 1 can assure you that I am glad to be here. We had a bad lime and struck the worst weather of the whole trip, but we had con-
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3804, 12 June 1928, Page 2
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