More aerial activities in the south

MR Mercer of the Aero Transport Company, Timaru, left Dunedin on Sunday afternoon in the Avro machine for Invercargill, taking Mr Mayo as a passenger. The company will be giving passenger flights in Invercargill and the surrounding districts. Mr Mercer hopes to be back again about the end of the week and will proceed to Timaru to make arrangements for having two machines in Dunedin during Carnival Week and also at Invercargill in February about the Show Week there. Mr Mercer desires to express the great indebtedness of

his company to the local bodies of Dunedin and to the public generally for the way in which they have interested themselves in flying, and says that if the people in other towns display the same interest a big lift will be given to aviation. The Canterbury Aviation Company’s machine was flying at Outram on Saturday, the first flight being a half hour trip over Dunedin with Messrs D. Nichol and C. Dawson of Outram. There was a brisk demand for passages, but about 3:30pm Captain Gray had to desist owing to slight engine trouble.

numbered only 48 in all, and could not guarantee more than £250. Many of their number had not an income of that dimension themselves. Eventually the salary was allowed, as it was a growing district and there seemed every prospect of the financial position of the church improving.