TIMOR SEA RADIO OFF.
MONSOON PERIOD STARTED. (Received 1.30 p.m.) DARWIX, this day. The Air Force wireless directionfinding station which guides mail 'planes across the Timor Sea, is out of action. The monsoon period Has begun, and it will be more than a fortnight before the service is restored. AFTER CAPE RECORD. FLYER TOL START TO-MORROW. (Received 12 noon.) LOXDOX, January 5. Mr. H. L. Brook, one of the participants in the Melbourne Centenarv air race of 1934, will set out on Thursdav in an attempt to break Mrs. Amv Mollison's record tp the Cape and back, which her husband vainly tried to lower last month. Mr. Brook will use a machine similar to that used by the airwoman on her trip. NEW EMPIRE AIR BASE. PORTSMOUTH ESTABLISHMENT. British Official Wireless. RUGBY, January 5. The Portsmouth Docks and Airport Committee has passed a new scheme for establishment of an Empire air base at Langston Harbour, near Portsmouth, for presentation to the Town Council. The estimated cost is £730,000, toward which there will be a grant of about £160,000 from the Government. I
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1937, Page 7
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