HONOUR FOR AIRMAN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 83, 28 November 1931, Page 5

HONOUR FOR AIRMAN

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PRINCE EULOGISES MR. F. C. CHICHESTER'S FEAT

-By Telegraph — Copyright) .

LONDON, Thursday. In the presence of many famous pilots including Fielden, Miss Winnifred Spooner, Miss Amy Johnson and Sir A. Cobham, at the" annual meeting of the Empire Air Pilots' Guild, the Prince of Wales presented Mr. F. C. Chichester, the New Zealand airman, with the Johnston Trophy. He said he had had sufficient experience of flying in different parts of the world to know the greatness of the responsibility on air pilots and navigators. It was a profession giving valuable and courageous service. Mrs Johnston, widow of the R101 aero, whose memory the trophy perpetuates, was presented to the Prince who afterwards lengthily chatted with the pilots discussing air problems. Miss Amy Johnson congratulated Mr. Chichester, whom she last met in a Japanese hospital where Mr. Chichester was recovering after the Matsura crash. Miss Amy Johnson who was on her way to Russia via Japan, called to wish him good luck. Mr. F. C. Chichester is a New Zealander. He won great kudos by flying from London to Australia. Later he left New Zealand for Australia via Norfolk Island, {and then left Sydney for London via the East. He crashed on this trip, and it was while he was in hospital that Miss Amy Johnson visited him.