Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Manila to Hongkong. Meantime, last week the ship that is going to make this run was 9,000 mi. away in the Antipodes making the first test flight over Pan American's second great transpacific venture, the 7,000 mi. airway from California to New Zealand...
...China line, a small cutter steamed quietly out of Honolulu, headed for the South Seas with a crew of aviation experts. Months later they were back with reams of preliminary data about weather, harbors, landing bases. Still no mention was made of any airline project, for in New Zealand Pan American's representative, Harold Gatty, the quiet Australian who flew around the world with Wiley Post (TIME, July 6, 1931), was engaged in the ticklish job of persuading that British Dominion to give landing rights to Pan American. New Zealand did not see why the U. S. should...
Delayed by a sudden storm, the Clipper's, crew spent three days making surveys of Samoa, finally got away for the test leg of the trip, the 1,800-mi. hop to Auckland, New Zealand, where the new line will tie up with a service Imperial Airways is soon to start from Australia across the 1,360 mi. Tasman Sea. This week the Clipper starts back to Honolulu and thence to Manila. Other planes will take up the testing of the new route, which thorough Pan American will probably fly for at least six months before beginning scheduled four...
...likely young New Zealander named Henry Hector Bolitho* made the friendly acquaintance of Edward of Wales, then aged 25 and dutifully touring the Dominions "down under" at the zenith of his infectious charm. Soon a book, With the Prince in New Zealand by Hector Bolitho was selling nicely, but not for a while did the author turn up in England, doing in 1929 a modest volume called The Later Letters of Lady Augusta Stanley and branching out from the Prince of Wales, who remembered him, into quiet purlieus of the Royal Family where a few not very exciting private papers...
...last week's Bolitho book, the New Zealand friend writes that as long as ten years ago Edward of Wales was estranged from King George and Queen Mary. "His son's friendship with Mrs. Simpson was a perpetual grief to him [George...