AIR RECORD

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 704, 2 December 1933, Page 5

AIR RECORD

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AUCKLAND AVIATOR FLIES FROM NORTH CAPE TO BLUFF A LADY PASSENGER

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, Invercargill, Friday. An aviation record for New Zealand was established to-day by Mr. E. F. Harvie, of Auckland, a member of the Western Federated Flying Club, who was accompanied by Miss Trevor Hunter, of • Whanganui, on a flight from North Cape to Bluff in a de Haviland Gypsy Moth aeroplarie. The distance covered on the flight was 1168 miles and the actual flying time was 1(> hours 10 minutes. Mr, Harvie, who arrived here at 7.57 p.m., left Kaitaia at 2 O'clock this morning 'for Nofth Cape and after ' cireling over the lighthouse headed south on his'long flight. Stops were made ' at Auckland, Haweria, Wellington, Kaikoura, Christchurch, Dunedin and Invercargill. The- conditions generally were good throughout the 'flight. The flyers' found :it much colder coming down the South Island. ' • The flight was' the longest yet made in New Zealand in one day,:the' previous best being a journey by S'quad-ron-Leader McGregor from Invercargill to Auckland on November 12, 1931. Mr. Harvie said the success was ma-ihly due to the machine and the ground organisation. 'He commented on the celerity with which he was attended to at the different-* landing grounds. The pair were tired on their arrival here' but were delighted with their outstanding achievement'. "For Mr. Harvie it is the realisation of a long cherished ambition.