Women and Vegetables Attract R.A.A.F. Crews

Grey River Argus, 15 April 1948, Page 6

Women and Vegetables Attract R.A.A.F. Crews

SYDNEY, April 14

Mosi of the reported “gold-run-ning smugglers’’ of the Northern Territory of Australia were nothing more than vitamin-conscious ’R.A.A.F. aircrews looking for fresh vegetables, according to a civil aviation ollicial, who has just returned from Darwin after investigating reports that unidentified aircraft had landed on lonely emergency airstrips in the Northern Territory. . He added that the remainder of the “smugglers" were “R.A.A.F. Romeos,” who had made secret moonlight landings on deserted wartime aerodromes to rendezvous with farmers’ daughters. Wheel marks at Batchelor field, alleged to have been made by laige airliners from the east, were proveu to have been made by Wirraway training planes from Darwin.