QUEST FOR GOLD
AIRMEN PROSPECTORS. LONDON, May 24. Major Reid Kellett, of Queensland, haf returned from Peru. He told a Press representative that he made the first flight, beginning at Piura, across the Andes. He Hew 1000 ft above the Andes, and covered 200 miles in 105 minutes. Landing in the old Inca city of Chachapayas, he created consternation among the natives. Mfujor Kellett has formed a company in London to develop four goldmines in Peru. The Australian airman, Mr Sydney Cotton, who is leading an air expedition to the newly-discovered goldfields at Stag Bay, on the desolate Labrador coast, in a cable message from Newfoundland, describee a daring landing on a narrow ice strip. “We were returning from Hawkes’ Bay to Botwood, and we decided to chance a landing on the beach, as the ice condition# along the coast would have delayed u? for a fortnight. We landed safely on a strip of ice 400 ft long and 60ft wide.
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Southland Times, Issue 18964, 11 June 1923, Page 6
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161QUEST FOR GOLD Southland Times, Issue 18964, 11 June 1923, Page 6
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