50,000 PEOPLE WELCOME "SMITHY." —A tumultuous welcome was given AirCommodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith on his arrival in Melbourne from England. His vast flight across the world and half-way round Australia was in 11 days. Picture shows a section of the great crowd that broke through the barriers at the aerodrome as the airman was taxi-ing his Percival Gull machine to a hangar, escorted by mounted police.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 249, 21 October 1933, Page 7
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6750,000 PEOPLE WELCOME "SMITHY."—A tumultuous welcome was given Air-Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith on his arrival in Melbourne from England. His vast flight across the world and half-way round Australia was in 11 days. Picture shows a section of the great crowd that broke through the barriers at the aerodrome as the airman was taxi-ing his Percival Gull machine to a hangar, escorted by mounted police. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 249, 21 October 1933, Page 7
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