INTERNATIONAL AIR RACE
AUSTRALIAN MAY WITHDRAW (Bee. 11 p-m.) SYDNEY, July 21. “Deliberate obstruction” by the Air Minister (Mr W. McMahon) might force him to abandon his plans to com- * pete in the London to Christchurch air race, a Sydney publican, Squadron Leader A. J. Oates, said today. Squadron Leader Oates said Mr McMahon had at first given him every encouragement by providing him with a Royal Australian Air Force Mosquito aircraft, "but since then two Royal Australian Air Force Canberra jet bombers have been entered and the Minister has been deliberately obstructing me. II his attitude persists I will be left in the position of flying on a (shoestring’.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27098, 22 July 1953, Page 9
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