N.Z. FARMER TO FLY HOME.
i (Received 10 a.m.) ■ J LONDON, October 22. i « A New Zealand farmer, Mr j j Ernie Clark, aged 29, who is > J spending a holiday in London, i i says he will start at the end of a i this week on a solo flight in a J J single-engined aeroplane to his i • home in North Canterbury, | I which he hopes to reach in time • J for the sheep shearing in the i • middle of November. i I Mr Clark’s longest flight so far j J has been to Switzerland. “I am I ■ not out for records,” he said to- ( I day. “I shall decide when I reach J J Australia whether to attempt the i 1 ■ crossing* of the Tasman Sea. I i i will follow the Imperial, Airways J J route,” J
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Northern Advocate, 23 October 1936, Page 7
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