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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 70, 15 December 1932, Page 10

THROUGH THE WILD , NORTH-WEST William Hatfield, the’ Australian “outback” author, commissioned to take travelogue film of wild Australian life and in search of material for another novel, is making a trip round the Australian Continent in a Hillman Minx. His route includes the wild North-West, where the German aviators, Bertram and Klausman, were recently marooned for forty-two days. Starting from Sydney in September, he reported from different points all the vicissitudes of which the route is capable: “Six inches of rain and ‘gumbo’ mud, arid desert, treacherous sandy creeks, rock and boulder-strewn gullies and ranges, hours of second gear going, and tableland running of ‘forty per hour and per gallon’ but with never a hold-up.” How he made a thousand miles detour to rescue and take to railhead two white women whose car had broken down, with a fever-stricken dilver, as told by the Sydney “Sun,” is an epic in itself. Now arrived at Broome, he writes: “No hitch Minx congratulate Hillman on producing job capable hardest work in roughest country in Kimberleys.”—Advt.