HIGH HONOUR GIVEN
ALBURY’S HELP TO DUTCH PILOTS.
DEGREE MORE THAN KNIGHTHOOD.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 9 p.m. Melbourne, Nov. 26. The Queen of Holland has created the Mayor of Albury, Aiderman Waugh, an officer of the Order of Orange and Nassau, which is accounted in Holland one degree higher than knighthood. The award is in recognition of Albury’a assistance to the Dutch pilots in the centenary air race. When Parmentier and Moll were lost in a storm -at night in Victoria they were guided by wireless to Albury, the citizens of- which left their beds and flooded with light from their car lamps a field on which the Dutchmen made an emergency landing.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1934, Page 7
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