Questions About Priority Flight

Northern Advocate, 9 July 1947, Page 4

Questions About Priority Flight

(p.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Notice was given in the House of Representatives yesterday by Dr A. M. Finlay (G —North Shore) to ask the Minister in charge of Civil Aviation (Mr Jones) if his attention had been directed to the Press report of a man who boasted that he had obtained a priority flight to Australia on piesentation of a doctor’s certificate that he needed medical treatment there, whereas his journey was in fact made for the sole purpose of backing a horse. “Will the Minister investigate the action of both the individual and the doctor concerned?” asked Dr Finlay. / The Brisbane correspondent of the Sydney Sunday Telegraph said: “A man who claims to have flown from New Zealand on a doctor’s certificate of priority to back the Doomben winner, High Strung, won £2OOO on the “He refused to give his name, because he said he hacT obtained the doctor’s certificate on the pretext of going to North Queensland for health “He said he lived in Auckland and arrived in Brisbane last Tuesday in response to a letter from a friend of the jockey, N. McGrowdie, rider of High Strung 1 , who said he knew ‘a good thing’ for the meeting.” The jockey, N. McGrowdie, denies that he persuaded a punter from New Zealand to come to Brisbane and back 'High Strung in the Doomben Ten Thousand. McGrowdie says that obviously someone impersonated him, as he knew nobody in New Zealand connected with racing .and did not write to anyone suggesting he should back High Strung.