THE NAVIGATOR'S DRIVE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CiIRISTCHUECH, This Day. In a state of exhaustion, after being thumped and clapped on the back by tlio enthusiastic crowd, IT. A. Litchfield, tho navigator of the Southern Gross, was rolicvcd physically and mentally when the driver of a furniture van offered him a "lift" into tho city from tho aerodrome. Kingsford Smith v»-as speaking from tlic balcony of tlio United Service Hotel when tho van drew up with his navigator; Litehfiold had become Koparated from the two pilots ;it the aerodrome, in the crush of the crowd after landing.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 53, 11 September 1928, Page 13
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96THE NAVIGATOR'S DRIVE Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 53, 11 September 1928, Page 13
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