TASMAN AIR SERVICE
PLANS WELL ADVANCED CAPTAIN BURGESS TO PILOT FIRST PLANE [ Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND. Feb. 12. The information that her husband, Captain J. W. Burgess, who commanded the Imperial Airways flyingboat Centaurus, on the pioneer flight to New Zealand and back a little Qvei a year ago, will fly the first transTasman aircraft from England, was brought by Mrs. Burgess, who arrived from London by the Rangitiki with her little son to take up residence in Auckland. Mrs. Burgess was not able to say when the flight was likely to be made, but mentioned that some weeks before she left England het husband had ceased to command machines on the Singapore and African mail routes and had been engaged entirely on preliminary organisation work for the transTasman service. Mrs. Burgess, whose family live in Wellington. visited New Zealand with her baby boy at the time of her husband’s former flight.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 36, 13 February 1939, Page 8
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152TASMAN AIR SERVICE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 36, 13 February 1939, Page 8
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