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AUSTRALIAN PARSON TO COVER 40,000 SQ. MILE PARISH IN MOTH. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received December 29, 11.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, December 29. The Anglican Church is pressing an aeroplane into service .to overcome the difficulties of travel which ministers experience in outback districts. The Rev Daniels, of Wilcannia, whose district covers about 40,000 square miles, has imported a De Haviland Moth machine, costing £BOO, from England, W’ith which he intends to do visitation work in his wide district, thereby overcoming the present slow and dangerous time-wasting journeys by buggy and car. Mr Daniels held a commission in the Royal Air Force during the war.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18349, 29 December 1927, Page 9
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