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CHICHESTER SETS OFT FOR THE EAST.. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. )
SYDNEY, July 3. Chichester left Farm Cove, this morning on a trip to England, via Japan. He will carry messages from the Prime Ministers of Australia and Now Zealand to the Prime Alinister of Japan. The trials of his seaplane proved satisfactory.
CHICHESTER’S OFF-HAND START SYDNEY. July 3.
Chichester departed without the slightest of fuss. He merely shook hands with a few officers aboard the Navy air craft carried “Albatross,” and disappeared over the side into his seaplane, which was moored nearby. He called out “goodbye everybody,” and was out of sight in a few minutes. It was a glorious sunny morning. He was carring petrol for five hundred miles, also a small wooden box of tinned food, and a rubber boat, a revolver, and letters containing greetings from the Prime A!misters of Australia and New Zealand to the Japanese Premier. CHICHESTER, AT BRISBANE. BRISBANE, July 4. Chichester stated his plane behaved like a lady. He leaves to-day for Bowen. Cooktown and Thursday Island. He carries a full load of petrol giving him a range of five hundred miles.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1931, Page 5
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