MID AUSTRALIA.
HURLEY’S DISTRESSING DESSCRIPTION “AN ARID WASTE” United Press Assn, by El. Tel. CopyTJsbt (Australian Press Abbii.i (Received Nov. 4, 5.5 p.m.) WYNDWA'M, Nov. 4. Catain Hurley v has inspected the engine of “The Spirit of Australia” and begins his ocean flight at midnight to-night. AH-is well with the crew, Captain Hurley's narrative of the flight across Central Australia includes a passage:— “It has ever been my ambition to see and know something of the hidden heart of Australia. Now I have seen a track eighty miles wide on either side of our twentytwo hundred mile course. 1 honestly say I am bitterly disappointed. The major portion is utterly desollate, arid and dead, such as to fill one with sadness. Only once before have I seen such dreary plains; they were in the tormented landscape of a hideous nightmare.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10735, 5 November 1928, Page 5
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