MRS. BONNEY
FIRST WOMAN. TO FLY FROM AUSTRALIA. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright;. (Received thi 6 day at 12.35 p.m.) ’ LONDON, June 21. 'Mrs Bonney is the first woman to fly from Australia to England. She said she suffered severely crossing the <re-_ sei’t between Baghdad " and Aleppo, owing to the bitter, unexpected cold. Approaching Sofia, from Constantinople she struck bad weather - in the mountains, one of which- she nearly hit. She was ftirced to land at Plovdiv, whole there was no petrel, and hid t 0 wait until it was sent from Sofia. After leaving Budapest she encountered appalling weather, and flew blind in ■circles, and was forced down in a field, which proved to her. dismay to be Gmund, just over the holder of Czechoslovakia, for which she had no pel mit. Mi's Bonney was 'indignant at Czechs ransacking her machine and detain ng her for a whole day.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 June 1933, Page 6
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