SYDNEY TO LONDON
HIDDEN HEART OF AUSTRALIA, if.urd Cress Association—By Electric Telegraph Copy righto (Australian Press Association.) WYNDHAM, Nov. 4. Captain Hurley, flying from Sydney to London, inspected his engine, and begins his ocean flight from hero at midnight to-night. All is well with the crew. •: Captain Hurley’s narrative of tl\e flight across Central Australia includes the passage: “It has ever been my ambition to see and know something of the hidden heart of Australia. Now I have seen a track 80 miles wide oh either side of our" 2200-mil© course. I honestly say I am bitterly disappointed. “The major portion is utterly desolate, arid, and dead, such as to fill one with sadness. Only once before have I seen more dreary plains; they were in the tormented landscapes of a hideous nightmare.’’ '
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 November 1928, Page 4
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133SYDNEY TO LONDON Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 November 1928, Page 4
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