NONAGENARIAN’S AIR TRIP.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, December 15. . In his ninetieth year. Mr John Monro, a native of Ireland, which probably explains bis exuberancy of spirit, left Syfl. new a day or two ago for Broken Hill, where be booked a passage for Adelaide bv aeroplane. Pi was as a vnulh that old John Moore came to Australia, aim worked at Tolaruo Station, on the’Darling River. He was there when Burke and Wills wept through on their wa,, north He can take his mind hack to the hectic days when fortunes were made figurative!', overnight in the boom lays of Broken Hill. Barrier Proprietary Mhny shares, which lie purchased for £9O. sold readily for £IOOO. Now at 90 years of age lie has tnk-m to the air.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20289, 23 December 1927, Page 10
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129NONAGENARIAN’S AIR TRIP. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20289, 23 December 1927, Page 10
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