AIRMAN AS TRAWLER HAND
MR. MOLLISON’S PLANS. LONDON, August 5. Mr. “Jim” Mollison, the famous airman, is shortly to sign on as a trawler hand. He and Mrs. Mollison are to compete in the forthcoming air race to Australia, and Mr. Mollison believes that three weeks’ arduous work as a trawler hand will prove ideal training for the race, Which promises to be a stiff test of ehduarnce. He proposes to embark at Hull on a fishing trawler, and will receive a nominal wage of Is a week. He got the idea from Mr. Trevor Jones, Deputy Town Clerk of Blackpool, whose Wife is Mrs Mollison’s. sister. Mr. Jones recently spent a three weeks’ holiday as spare hand in a trawler, visiting the Arctic fishing grounds, and worked with the rest of the crew. A municipal sub-committee is considering the advisability of entering for the air race an aeroplane nominated by a Blackpool man, with Mtj and Mrs. Mollison as pilots. Mr. Mollison visited the Town Hall yesterday to discuss the project. *»
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 September 1934, Page 11
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