BERT HINKLER
MAKES NEW RECORD
NEW YORK, October 27
Bert Hinkler,, the Australian airman. arrived at Kingston, Jamaica, today. on a. nuii-stop flight in a BussAfotli plane, from Long Island, of fifteen hundred miles. Hinkler’s American representatives asserted flint, following the Australian’s sudden unannounced flight to Jamaica, tlie aviator would pro-ha lily continue to Natal in Brazil. where it is believed be will t!i(‘ii decide whether or not to fly to Africa, as lie had been Imping to do for some time. TORONTO, October 27. It is claimed that Bert Hinkler’s flight Inis set a new distance record for a Puss-Moth plane, beating the record of Afiss Amy Johnson for a flight in a similar aeroplane, when she went from London to "Warsaw.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1931, Page 3
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