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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1932, Page 15

THROUGH THE WILD XOETH- : WEST. William Hatfield, the Australia! "outback" author, commissioned to take a . travelogue film of wild Australian life and in search of material for another novel, is making a trip round the Australian Continent in a Hillman Minx. His route includes the wild North-West, where the German aviators Bertram and Klausman were recently marooned for forty-two days. Starting from Sydney; in September, he reported from different points all the vicissitudes of which the route is capable, '.'six inches of rain and,'gumbo' mud, arid desert, treacherous sandy creeks, rock aiul boulderstrewn gullies and ranges, hours of second gear going, and tableland running of 'forty per hour and per gallon,' but. with never a hold up." How ho made a thousand miles detour to rescue and take to railhead two white women, whose car had broken down, with a fever-stricken driver, aj told, by til© Sydney "Sun." is an enie in itself: Xow arriyed at Broome, he writes: "Ko hitch Minx; congratulate' Hillman-'on. ■producing job capable hardest work in roughest country in Kirnberlevs."—Advt. ' : ■ ""-'■■■