CHANGING LIFE
IN THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH. Fresh fish is now delivered twice a week in some of the remote parts of the Australian bush. •A short time ago this would have seemed a miracle, but it has been made possible by the weekly air-mail service from Adelaide to Port Darwin and back. Many people living in lonely outposts far from civilisation are now enjoying the luxury, and fresh fish parties are the fashion during week-ends. The fish, which is brought from the north and south coasts of Australia, costs 3s 3d a pound, but it is impossible to carry enough to meet the large demand.
After some successful flights along the 1800-mile route a regular service was started. An aeroplane now leaves Adelaide every Saturday morning and reaches Darwin on the Sunday morning. It leaves for the south that afternoon, and arrives at Adelaide on Monday.
At bush hotels travellers can now obtain unexpected dainties. Strange requests have been made at some of the stopping-places. One family asked for a tennis net for a week-end party.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2670, 15 September 1937, Page 6
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