LURE OF GOLD.
AIRMEN'S FAR-FLUNG QUEST,
ACROSS THE ANDES
LONDON, May 18
Major Reid Kellett, of Queensland, has returned from Peru. He told a representative of the Sun that he made the first flight, beginning at Pima, across the Andes. Ho flew 1000 ft. above the Andes, and covered 200 miles in 105 minutes. Landing in the old Inca city of Ghacliapayas, lie created consternation among the natives. .Major Kellett has formed a company in London to develop four goldmines in Pern. The Australian airman Mr Sidney Cotton, who is leading an air expedition to the newly-discovered goldfield at, Stag Bay, on the desolate Labrador coast, in a cable message from Newfoundland, describes a daring landing on a narrow ice strip. “Wc were returning from Hawke’s Bay to Botwood, and we decided to chance a landing on the beach, as the ice conditions along the coast would have delayed us for a fortnight. We landed safely on a strip of ice 400 ft, long and 60ft. wide.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 722, 2 June 1923, Page 11
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