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SMITHY “A BUNDLE OF NERVES.”
WILL HURRY ON TO SYDNEY.
(Australian Press Association)
(Received this day at 1 p.m.) SYDNEY', October 12. Kings ford Smith Ims been urged to make the best possible time to Sydney. J t is pointed out that the Federation Aeromuitique Internationale recently adopted a number .of routes which it will recognise for record breaking purposes, and had indicated that, in the case of flight from England to Australia; the London-Sydney route only would be recognised. Smith leaves WynclTuun parly in the morning lot Charjeville.
Interviewed at ‘Wyndhaui, Sir Charles said" that lie felt- run down, :in ( ( was ; ‘a bundle of nerves.’’ Ho leit very ill over the first stage from England.
The morning papers arc loud in their praise of Smithy’s achievement. The Prime Minister said: “I am never surprised at anything he does, and I have no hesitation in say,iig that 1 regard him as the greatest airmail in the world.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1933, Page 6
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