BY AIR TO AUSTRALIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3432, 11 March 1920, Page 5

BY AIR TO AUSTRALIA.

~..._....u_..._ POSSIBILITIES OF FLIGHT. SYDNEY, March 1. The arrival in >ydney to-day of Sir .-Xrthur Brown, who was the late Sir Jolm Alcock’s companion on the great non-stop flight across the Atlantic

last. year, has .~‘s..ir;'£‘d up interest in the possivbility 01‘ trans-ocezm flights, and directed attention to the new won-ids which await a conqueror. "When is the flight from Australia to New Zealand to be tacklecl?” asked at noted flier, at {-1 little gathel'ing of a\'i:'ltiCn'lllGll in Sydliey this afternoon. “It’s up to New Zealand. but the New Zealanders don’t. seem to ‘gave made 21. move yet. I woll‘3er why. The All.<tl'a]ialis have been do» iug things on tiae Londoli-Australian :-cute, and there"'s an .~\ust1'alian in the Loiidon-Cape flight. But there were some good New Zealund fliers in Is‘:-mice during the war, and the first flight across the Tasman Sea ought to gm to :1 i\'~c-xv 7.'ealalldel'. I should !m.\'e thotigzfhr, 1110 New Zealand Gov-

ernment would ‘nave tried to encourv age ;he attmnm before this. “It is 1200 miles from shore to shore,” he'went on. “but the problem of flying ac:-cs.< there is not as difficult as it looks. I believe it could be greatly s-implified by taking the rollnd2lbollt route from a. smtable }>()i.'lT in NOl-tlxem New South Wales .1119 wrist to L-.').-«:3 Howe Islzmd. t'nell 1101‘th-c-as!’ to Noxfollc island, and

than south-Past to North Auckland. I do not think that would give any\\'hm'(> a loll_2‘m- flight than 500 miles. It Could he don-s (tomformbly in this \'»‘a_\' in threw st:tg<--3. and I think if tli'e

a\'int‘ors \\*el'<»- keen about it they could do it in t\VO-——l\llStl‘3li{L to Lord Howe. and Lord Howe to Auckland.

“Now Zeulaud is already, in my opinion. within a, day and a-half, comfOl't3,b‘]_V, of :\uSt1':llia. A large aeroplane. sun-("Eng 0:11-l_\'. could reach Lord Howe by noon and Norfolk Island by rlusk. and could reach Auckland early t-lm following afternoon. Why does not Hm .»'\l(-rw Zealand Government make a start with it. It would be a great thing for both countries, and there is no doubt the Australian Government would gladly co-operate by placing Wm-ships along the route of Um firm flight. lo gtiarf: against accidents.”

This is the subsrtallce of the airnlen.’s conversation. It; was i'nfo~-mal and quite unofiicial, but it ought". ‘.O be im:»:erc.~:t'.il\_:*. 10 NM-2 Zea’!-anders.