AUSTRALIAN NEWS
A SOLO FLIGHT.
(Australian Press Association.)
SYDNEY, August 13.
H. F. Broadbent, a prominent Australian aviator, accomplished a notable solo Might to-day, covering the distance between Brisbane and Adelaide via Sydney and Melbourne in one day. The distance is about 1,350 miles.
He left Brisbane just after mid-night and reached Adelaide about 6 p.m.. He encountered bad weather for most of the trip ■ He now plans to fly round Australia in .seven days. JUDGES’ SALARIES. ATTITUDE OF JUDGES. * (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, August 13. The Prime Minister (Mr Scull in) wrote to the High Court Judges and invited them to volunteer twenty-five per cent, reduction of salaries. The Chief Justice (Sir Frank Gavan Duffy), Justices Starkes and Evatt declined, but expressed their willingness to forego £4 4s 4d a day travelling allowance, when away from their own States. The other three Judges agreed to the salary cut. The objectors’ reason was that they were unprepared to weaken that seot.on of the constitution which provided that nothing must be done to diminish Judges’ salaries during the continuance of office.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1931, Page 6
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