CENTENARY AIR RACE
THE FINAL STAGE COMPLETED WINNERS OF SECTIONS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) ADELAIDE, 18th December. A Victorian pilot, C. D. Pratt, who conducts a flying school at Geelong, to-day won the handicap section of the Centenary air race. The final stage, Melbourne to Adelaide via Nhill, was completed to-day in bad conditions, fog arid mist causing several competitors to make forced landings en route. The speed section was won by the Queenslander, J. W. Collins. The latter, off scratch flew a Percival Vega Gull machine. 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, hying a Stinson Reliant, was runner-up in the speed event, C. D. Pratt being third.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 December 1936, Page 9
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