AROUND AUSTRALIA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17354, 20 May 1924, Page 1

AROUND AUSTRALIA.

AVIATORS COMPLETE JOURNEY. MUCH VALUABLE DATA COLLECTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 20, 11.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, May 20The aviators Wing-Commander Goble and Flying-Officer Maclntyre have completed tfrieir flight round Australia. They covered 8500 miles in approximately ninety hours. They say that much of the country along the coast appeared to be different from that shown on the maps. BeTiihd the brief messages announcing the arrival and departure from various places of Wing-Commander Goble and Captain M’Tntyre, who have flown around Australia in' a seaplane, is a story of-pluck and endurance. For miles the seaplane flew against rain and sleet, the .men almost perishing with the bitter cold, but they stuck totbeir task with grim tenacity. There was one episode of an encounter with a high cliff, which towered near the spot chosen for a landing place at Port Darwin. The seaplane just missed destruction, and managed to plane down in safety. After leaving Eloho Island, the aviators gazed on land which was practically the same isolated. barren strips that Matthew Flinders saw. Goble and M’lntyre. by their photographs and surveys, will he responsible for putting it on the map. The defence authorities will now be in possession of reliable data when they are considering the establishment of naval seaplane bases.