ONCE REFUSED JOB WITH COBHAM'S CIRCUS
5 (Eeceived 19, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 18, MisS Jean Batten was once refused a job with Sir Alarf Oobham's "Flying Circus. ' ' In ref erring to this as tlie "guest of the Haldborn Chamber of Commerce, She said: "I was left with the impression that the pilots thought I ought to go away an-d get married. In i'act, one of the pilots gave me the impression so much that I aisked him if this were a proposal. He did not repeat the statement. Sir Alan Cobham said: "M y pilots were a lot of he-men. I felt that if I took on Miss Batten there would be a riot, so I had to tell her reluctantly that the arrangement would not work. ' '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 48, 19 November 1937, Page 5
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