AIR RACE WINNERS.
ARRIVALS AT ADELAIDE." ADELAIDE, Dec. 18. The Victorian pilot, C. D. Pratt, who conducts a flying school at Geelong, to-day won the handicap section ot the centenary air race. The final stage, from Melbourne to Adelaide via Nhill, was completed today in bad conditions, fog and mist causing several competitors to make forced landings en route. The speed section was won by the Queenslander, J. IV. Collins, off scratch. He flew a Percival Vega Gull machine.
Mr Pratt flew a' Klemm Eagle, the property of a New South Wales grazier. A Victorian, A. R. Ansett, finished second in the handicap with a Porterfield machine.
A Queenslander, P. Moody, flying a Stinson Reliant, was runner-up in the speed-event. C. D. Pratt was third.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 18, 19 December 1936, Page 9
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