THE SOUTHERN CROSS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 434, 19 January 1933, Page 7

THE SOUTHERN CROSS

A LARGE ATTENDANCE AT ARRIYAL IN - ROTORUA. With his usual cheery smile, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith alighted from the Southern Cross on Tuesday to greet a large gathering which' had assembled at Te Ngae to see this world-famous aviator, together with what he calls the "old bus," but from the outward eye it looks comparatively juvenile, considering the , wonderful flights it has already achieved. It seemed almost unbelievahle that she was really before 'our eyes — we had yead so much about her and seen so many pietures of her — now we saw her really among us, with her intrepid pilot smiling his welcome from the cockpit. Among some of the many who were at Te Ngae on Tuesday were: — Mrs. T. Jackson, Mrs. W. Smith, Mrs. R. Copeland Smith, Mrs. L. J. Bayfeild, Mrs. W. Morrison, Mrs. G. Urquhart, i Mrs. 0. H. Coleman, Mrs. H. P. Ford, Mrs. D. M. Ford, Mrs. M D Carr, Mrs. H. Bertram, Mrs. E. La Trobe Hill, Mrs. W. Scott (Timaru), Mrs. E: G. Guy, Mrs. H. Roach, Mrs. C. Young, Mrs. S. L. Faterson, Mrs. Duncan Steele, Mrs. W. W. P. Hall, Mrs. J. Huddleston (Timaru), Mrs. F. Newrnarch, Mrs. M. Dannefaerd, Mrs. J.McDowell, Mrs. R. P. Spedding, Mrs. ! A. Walden, Mrs. C. Redhead, Mrs. C. Carr, Sen., Mrs. W. L. Richards, Mrs. F. Staniei*, Mrs. E. Roe, Mrs. Booth, Mrs. F. Ryde, Mrs. J. Banks, Mrs. G. Foote (Whangarei), Mrs. D. Jervis, Mrs. E. Robertson, Mrs. C. H. C. Worthington, Mrs. A. J. Iles, Mrs. Stembross (Sydney), Mrs. H. A. Goudie, Mrs. E. Johnsdn, Mrs. J. R. Blencowe, Mrs. J. Sherriff, Mrs. S. J. Hale, Mrs. E. Fenton, Mrs. J. Carruthers, Mrs. Blomfield and Mrs. Burton. Miss B. Evans, Miss M. Mitchell, Miss K. Hall, Misses P. and V. St. Clair, Miss S. Snodgrass, Miss M. Maetier, Miss M. Williamson, Miss D. Corlett, Miss N. Lees, Miss Brackebush, Miss M. Bertram, Miss J. Bertram, Miss J. Pearce, Miss G. La Trobe, Hill, Miss H. Scott (Timaru), Miss L. Hampson, Miss E. Henderson, Miss 0. Dalgleish, Miss G. Dillon, Miss H. Ford, Miss S. Huddleston (Timaru), Miss E. McDowell, Miss G. Manson, Miss B. Vaughan, Miss M. Downey, Miss A. McKenzie, Miss L. Dannfaerd, Miss Black, Miss M. Marlowe, Misses E. and G. Sharpe, Misses I. and M. Lasenby, Miss M. Kronfeldt, Miss M. Ruddy, Miss G. Booth and Miss S. Wilson.