Outback Australia.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1923, Page 4

Outback Australia.

Ml! V.\n WIitKI.KSS SKKYK'KS. KYI).NT, Y. l , 'obruary I. The lii’Uenncui Ill' the condition of i!i ; . people in mi (hack A i is 1 in I i;i I iy thi-' ■1 ivi li’iimi Mt i i "!deam! i"-’ 1 . bed <•( mi Iciilinii. People :;•(> ;•! ! e-l I• iliili l1 ;.r In li - lieve tin- ;• ■:•:>’>! *:ii' , ■: : r:i ideal -i .'Mis »)' travel. Fin' more tliim M year the aerial : -i! ln-iv.o r. (iernUltoii im ! Derby lie • been runni: <' sin-ees- 1 u'lv. !| !is never failed to re re. !l !>" ]ier eeut. of off. ,-ii a lid fin' :• ’veral months it kepi on t!ie 100 i’“" coni mini;. Tie rib, ••■•;! mail la'iuci'ii (lnneiii'ry iind {' -brim i!!e. in Oueeiisland--cover-in'’. :* mi 1 ' of 000 ir.ill"-’, lies been emiiieinlv snccesffill. The present mrcliines were enlv ] iirchased for tmnporarv use. :> in I sneeinl inneliines. wlirli will be -i11• i!;■ i■ to li'e fame." > raft wliieb eressed (lie Uliintie ami Ross Smith in -Vest riilin. are cxpe t d to I'rrive s';m. The Adelaidc-Sydney SydM’.v-P.rislrii'e -ervices will Hien be eoim. :e need. The ■."ay i- now "'•-•ii for Imsli peo;i' to commence 'viri le-,, work, and ‘rms are not wantin ■ that they will ip ieVv avail tliemsolves of their ]irivile<:e. At CV MIo ! ' < * »V !! s . Ml iho. OXt MM ’«• n»M*t’•

east of South Australia, 380 miles from a rail way station, the aerial used by I the astronomers who went there ' to view the eclipse is still standing. It has been purchased by the company owning the station with a view of installing a useful transmitting set. The way for the hush amateur will not really be clear until regular wireless stations have been opened in strategic centres inland, linking wireless to the Commonwealth telegraph system. While no definite move has been made bv those interested to raise funds for a flying doctor scheme, there is growing into rest in it. Ten aerial medical bases are suggested, and they would bring practically every hush inhabitant within easy reach of a doctor, for no one would he more than 200 miles from an air call. There have already been instances of patients being assisted hv the aeroplane service. Sometimes the patient has been conveyed to the doctor and sometimes the latter to the patient. Tii one ease, although there was telegraph connexion, severe floods made ordinary travel impossible, but the aeroplane had the man safely in hospital within two hours of the receipt of the call. Another man was taken 200 miles to the mission’s nursing home at Port Headland within two hours. Croat suffering was thus avoided.