LOST IN HEAVY RAIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1000, 17 June 1930, Page 9

LOST IN HEAVY RAIN

AMY JOHNSON ARRIVES LATE AT MELBOURNE PARENTS IN NEW YORK MELBOURNE. Monday. Miss Amy Johnson arrivec: at the Mcionee Valley racecourse, Melbourne, in a Moth airplane two hours late. The de Havilland machine in which Miss Johnson left Canberra was lost in blinding rain and mist and the pilot could not land. The girl was then flown to Laverton and transferred to the Moth. A crowd of 15,000 people gave her a rousing welcome. A message from New York says a number of visiting Rotarians; arrived at New York by the Cunard liner Cs.roina to attend the Rotary Convention to be held at Chicago from June 23 to 27. Among the visitors are Miss Amy Johnson’s father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson, and their daughter, Mollie. Mr. Johnson apparently ha.s been the most important man on board the lin€:r and very popular. In an interview Mr. Johnson said he had been confident that Amy would attain her purpose. She had always been a determined girl. She deserved everyi.liing she might get through her daring feat. Her family was very proud of her and it had been very gratifying to hear all the pleasant things said about Amy on the voyage over and on arrival at New York. “We will tell her all about it when she comes home,’’ said Mr. Johnson. “We expect to meet her at Marseilles on July 16.” z