THROUGH THE WILD NORTHWEST

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17946, 25 November 1932, Page 6

THROUGH THE WILD NORTHWEST

William Hatfield, the Australian “outback” author, commissioned to take travelogue film of wild Australian life and in search of material for another novel,, is making a trip round the Australian Continent in a Hillman Minx. His route includes the wild North-West: where the German aviators Bertram and Klausmann were recently marooned for forty-two days. Starting from Sydney in September lie reported from different points ail the vicissitudes of which the route is capable: “Six inches of rain and ‘gumbo ’ mud, arid desert, treacherous sandy creeks, rock and boulderstrewn gullies and ranges, hours of second-gear going, arid tableland running of ‘forty per 'hour and per gallon,’ but with never a hold-up.” How he made a thousand miles detour to rescue and lake to railhead two while women whose- car hud broken down, with n fever-strii ken driver, as told by lhe Sydney Sun, is an epic in itself. Now arrived at. Broome, he writes: “No hitch Minx. Congratulate Hillman on producing job capable hardest work in roughest eounlry in the Kimherlevs. ’ ’*