GERMAN AIRWOMAN

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 February 1935, Page 12

GERMAN AIRWOMAN

VIEWS ABOUT AUSTRALIA.

LONDON, January 22.

In a book called “Flying Girl,” just published, Fraulein Elly Beinhorn, the German airwoman who flew to Australia, deals entertainingly with her world flight and devotes a chapter to Australia, which she calls “a land of speeches.” Fraulein Beinhorn confesses that prior to her arrival she knew nothing of Australia, except that it was tiie home of kangaroos and the Southern Cross, which in every novel about Australia “beams impressively on lovers.” “I did not see even a kangaroo’s tail in my two months’ stay,” she says, “while the Southern Cross was resplendent only on the Australian flag.” “My sole discovery about aborigines,” Fraulein Beinhorn writes, “was that those who acted as servants at Newcastle Waters were very black, very thin and smelt horribly. I found tho whites much more interesting, especially the silent, blue-eyed and tanned young farmers.’’ Although the writer thoroughly appreciated the hospitality of Brisbane and Sydney, “Australia,” she declares, “is a land of speeches. It cannot get on without them. Australians arc extraordinarily appreciative of quick repartee. I hope Australian visitors to Germany have as good a time as I had in the Commonwealth.”