“HIM PLURRY BIG PHELLA BIRD" might have been the unspoken comment of these aboriginal “gins” who watched, with stolid fascination, the process of changing a propeller on one of the 'planes competing in the recent air race across Australia. The airman is Major de Havilland, who finished second and gained fastest time.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 283, 14 November 1929, Page 3
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52“HIM PLURRY BIG PHELLA BIRD" might have been the unspoken comment of these aboriginal “gins” who watched, with stolid fascination, the process of changing a propeller on one of the 'planes competing in the recent air race across Australia. The airman is Major de Havilland, who finished second and gained fastest time. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 283, 14 November 1929, Page 3
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