THESE UNUSUAL PICTURES, passed by the War Office, show tanks at exercises in the thick . mud, “somewhere in the West Country.” A great deal of mud is picked up by these tanks when working in wet ground, and thick layers have to be scraped off at the end of the day. Top, a heavy tank passing through slush. Below, after traversing the mud, these tanks are firing their 3-pounders on the rang . (Right.) NEW ZEALAND FARMERS’ UNION DELEGATES arriving at Parliament House on Thursday, when they placed before Cabinet some of the troubles of the farming community. Left.) THOMAS H. SMITH, the 25-year-old Los Angeles airman, with the aeroplane in which he attempted to fly across the Atlantic. He left Old Orchard, Maine, U.S.A at 4.50 am on not since been heard of. His machine was a single-motored 65-h.p. Aeronca christened Baby Clip per,” the smallest plane made in America.

Northern Advocate, 18 July 1939, Page 8

THESE UNUSUAL PICTURES, passed by the War Office, show tanks at exercises in the thick . mud, “somewhere in the West Country.” A great deal of mud is picked up by these tanks when working in wet ground, and thick layers have to be scraped off at the end of the day. Top, a heavy tank passing through slush. Below, after traversing the mud, these tanks are firing their 3-pounders on the rang . (Right.) NEW ZEALAND FARMERS’ UNION DELEGATES arriving at Parliament House on Thursday, when they placed before Cabinet some of the troubles of the farming community. Left.) THOMAS H. SMITH, the 25-year-old Los Angeles airman, with the aeroplane in which he attempted to fly acro ss the Atlantic. He left Old Orchard, Maine, U.S.A at 4.50 am on not since been heard of. His machine was a single-motored 65-h.p. Aeronca christened Baby Clip per,” the smallest plane made in America.