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CAUSE OF MISS THOMPSON’S MISHAP United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright DARWIN, This Day. Miss Freda Thompson 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 the 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, and had landed in a clear space in the sand and spinifex country. She spent the night by the ’plane. Constable Stott found her near the overland telegraph, with the ’plane a short distance away.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19953, 10 November 1934, Page 17
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117SHORT OF PETROL Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19953, 10 November 1934, Page 17
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