FLYING IN AUSTRALIA

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 91, 14 October 1926, Page 12

FLYING IN AUSTRALIA

HOW" BUSINESS HEN SAVE TIME.

(From Our Own Corr«spond»nt.)

SYDNEY;,

7th October

The truth of that axiom that time is money is illustrated not only in (he general use of motor-cars and other motor transport to-day, but in the increasing use of aeroplanes tor purely business purposes. The sale of 40,000 sheep at Hay, in New South Wales, a day or two agoj attracted buyers by aeroplane from various parts of Australia.. One incident almost suggested a cinema stunt; it certainly might have been made the setting for one. The auctioneer had started to knock down a line of rlo.se on 5000 wethers, when a 'plane broke through the clouds. The auctioneer announced that a buyer for the wethers was in the aeroplane. As soon as the machine had landed the buyer was rushed across to the sale in a motor from the aerodrome some little distance away. As he stepped out of the car the auctioneer announced:—''l am offered 18s for 0000 wethers. Will you give £1 for them?" ''Yes;'' said the man who had swept down in the aeroplane. The sheep were his. Thirty-three thousand station sheep were sold for £41,715 in less than an hour. The sheep men then hopped into waiting aeroplanes and left again for Melbourne and Adelaide. Judging from the number of pupils of the Sydney Aero Club who are already making solo /lights, flying is going to be very popular in Xeu- South AVales alike, for pleasure and for annihilating distance outback.