A REMARKABLE FLIGHT
TEST MATCH FHOTOS. CARRIED 6000 MILES.
N.Z. Press Assn.
— By Tel. Copyright.
(Received June 25, 10.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 25. Pictures of the first Test Match, which finished on June 12th, were published in Sydney to-day. The Dutch air mail ianded them at Batavia last Thursday and they were cbtained there by Captain P. Taylor, an Australian air m an', and Sir Chas. Kingsford Smith's trans-Tasman colleague, who landed with them at Wyndham , on Friday evening. He thence ma'de a 2000 miles flight across the continent, spending Saturday night at Broken Hill and arrivlng at Sydney on Sunday, with as little fuss as if he had flown 60 instead of 6000 miles. Another reeord flight was made today, when a New England Airways mail monoiplane flew from Brisbane to Sydney, about 460 air miles, in three hours 28 minutes.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXVIII, Issue 149, 26 June 1934, Page 5
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142A REMARKABLE FLIGHT Marlborough Express, Volume LXVIII, Issue 149, 26 June 1934, Page 5
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