JEAN BATTEN LEAVING
MELBOURNE CENTENARY VISIT. FUTURE PLANS INDEFINITE. (By Telegraph — Press Association.! WELLINGTON, Sept. 17. After having led almost as strenuous a life during her eight or nine weeks in New Zealand as she did on her record flight from England to Australia, Miss Jean Batten wall leave Wellington to-morrow afternoon by the Maunganui for the Melbourne centenary. During her official aerial tour of New Zealand" Miss Batten visited 20 towns and made about 150 speeches. She spent to-day in attending to her machine, which will be stowed on one of the Maunganui’s decks, and getting a clearance certificate from the quarantine authorities for her kitten Buddy, which has done 60 hours’ -flying in New Zealand.
Miss Batten’s plans are indefinite,
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 18 September 1934, Page 5
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