Clad to be back once more, a Wanganui shearer who has been in New South Wales for the shearing season returned home last week. “Conditions were not of the best,” be said to the Chronicle, “owing to the three years’ drought, but still I did all right in my rounds of the sheds, and so cannot complain.” Aeroplanes are now playing a prominent part, in the back-country life of Australia. There were frequent services to way back stations, and landing grounds were plentiful. When a farmer required an aeroplane urgently on the recognised route ho flagged the airman to come down by means of red flagß. i
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17126, 5 December 1929, Page 12
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