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MISS FREDA THOMPSON. OUT OF PETROL. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Darwin, November 9. Miss Freda Thompson, the Melbourne aviatrix, who flew from England to Australia, was discovered by Constable Gordon Stott, of the Northern Territory Mounted Police, 16 miles from Tennant’s Creek and about 600 miles from Darwin. She is safe and her machine is undamaged. Constable Stott took Miss Thompson to Tennant’s Creek, from which place she proposes to leave as soon as she can get petrol. Miss Thompson said she ran out of petrol while lost. She had landed in a clear space in sand and spinifex country and had spent the night by the plane. Constable Stott found her near the overland telegraph line with the plane a short distance away.
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Southland Times, Issue 22475, 10 November 1934, Page 5
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