SOUTHERN CROSS WIRELESS OPERATOR RETURNS HOME.
Wellington, Last Night. The wireless operator of the Southern Cross, Mr. T. H. McWilliams, returned to Wellington by the Makura from Sydney to-day. Mr. McWilliams has obtained extension of leave from his emplojeis, the Union Steamship Company Ltd., and after three Weeks’ stay in the Dominion, will return to Australia, where he will rejoin SquadronLeader Kingston! Smith and Flight-Lieut. Ulm. “I have no definite plans for the future,” remarked Mr. McWilliams “and neither have Kingsford Smith and Ulm. The navigator, Mr Litchfield, is in the same box and is just standing by. By the time I return, however, there may be something definite in view for further flights. The Southern Cross was at present being .overhauled by ‘Doe’ Maidment.” On being asked how he found a journey by Makura after a onenight trip from Sydney to New Zealand on the epoch-making flight of the Southern Cross, Mr. McWilliams said that the steamer voyage seemed somewhat monotonous. “Wlhen we were 24 hours out,” he said, “I imagined that we should be over New Zealand. The steamer trip seemed very slow.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3867, 6 November 1928, Page 3
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185SOUTHERN CROSS WIRELESS OPERATOR RETURNS HOME. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3867, 6 November 1928, Page 3
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