HOPE TO HALVE RECORD
JEAN BATTEN'S FLIGHT HOF-OFP AWAITED MARSEILLES FIRST STOP (Elcc. Tel. Copyright—United Tress Assn.) (Ttecd. Oct, 5. 2 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 4. Tho New Zealand flyer, .Miss Jean Batten, arrived at Lympno to-day in readiness for Iter flight to Australia and New Zealand. She said she wanted to start in the morning', but the weather forecast shows tho barometer to be falling heavily in southern France. "I shall have another report at 3 a.m.." she said. "I intend to make the first stop at Marseilles, where I will take nn a full load of petrol. 155 gallons. "1 hope to halve my Australian record. 1 shrill wear my lucky New Zealand flag as a. muffler, as 1 have done on all of my lung flights."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 5 October 1936, Page 6
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