"Southern Cross" Echoes

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 16, 2 November 1928, Page 8

"Southern Cross" Echoes

Letters. from Australia and USA. HE Australian mail has brought 2 large number of letters reporting reception of the New Zealand broadeast in connection with the Southern Cross flight. These letters have come principally from New South Wales. Great praise is given for the transmission. One writer in Victoria reports that he followed the flights both to and from New: Zealand, being very keenly interested because he gained his wings in France in 1915. His letter is. enthusiastic. Incidentally he remarks that when 2YA was rebroadcasting 2BL he preferred to listen in to 2YA for the transmission was so clear and satisfactory. . Another letter comes from Waratah, near Neweastle, the home town of Litchfield, the navigator. This was the first soil over which the Southerr Gross flew, and the correspondent com

ments on this fact to prove how strong the homing instinct is. 4 From Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., comes another letter reporting reception of 2YA when broadcasting the flight of the Southern Cross from the Richmond aerodrome to New Zealand. he writer, Bishop Sumner, also appends a copy of a Wellington cablegram which appeared in the "Morning Oregonian" announcing the arrival of "Captain Kingsford Smith and his three companions." a