HINKLER NOT WANTED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 101, 19 December 1931, Page 5

HINKLER NOT WANTED

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! may go to america newspaper scathingly criticises british neglect faith in british machine

— By Telegraph — Copyright).

Rec. Dec. 18, 7.0 p.m. LONDON, Friday. The "Daily Express" says that negotiations are afoot which will probably result in Bert Hinkler's depart'ure for the United States, where he ; will he employed in American avia-'j tion. The "Daily Express," commenting, : says: "It seems that there is no room here for a man who, after serving in the Royal Naval Air Force in war time, accomplished notable flights, -and spent £10,000 of his own inOney in the course of his flying career, his only reward being a decoration from the Sultan of Morocco. "Hinkler bought his Puss Moth for taxi work in C'anada, hoping to show what a British machine could do, but with lifEIe result, so he decided to show the British flag in South Ame-

rica, where there was the greatest enthusiasm for American workmanship, while at Home no one Seemed to care whether his ship, meaning his Puss Moth, went to the bottom of the sea. "When he realised that in order to get to England he would have either to sell his machine or Hy, Hinkler made careful plans for the flie-ht fro™

Brazil via Afriea, which was no hairhrained enterprise, but was designed to give a cbance of further 'enhancement to the famous British machine." \ ■ , . . . .