FLYING DOCTOR.
Wins Libel Action Against Newspaper.
Press Association—Copyright. Singapore, Jan. 15. The "flying doctor,” Dr. Fenton, claiming £9OO was awarded £lOO damages for libel against the Straits Times as a sequel to a newspaper report of his air dash from Australia to China to the bedside of his sick mother. The newspaper alleged that Dr. .Fenton was piloting a plan'-, “which was the property of the Commonwealth Government and which he was forbidden to use by the Commonwealth Government.’ Dr. Fenton, who is a Northern Territory doctor, claimed that this implied theft, whereas the machine was his own property. Ail the Commonwealth did was to insist on the installation of an additional tank which he had no time to arrange. He .also had no time to arrange permits to ; flying over other countries.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 335, 16 January 1937, Page 5
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134FLYING DOCTOR. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 335, 16 January 1937, Page 5
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