ENGLAND - AUSTRALIA.
GARDEN’S PROGRESS. DUE AT SYDNEY TO-DAY. KINGSFORD SMITH PROMOTED. Lulled Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. SYDNEY, Nov. 6 Mr Oscar Garden, th.e young New Zealand airman, who has just flown from England to Australia, left Alice Springs early this morning and arrived at Broken Hill, about 925 miles west of Sydney, where he is spending the night. He is due to reach Sydney to-morrow afternoon. Flight-Lieutenant G. W. Hill, who crashed on the beach at Dilly, Timor Island, when he Was flying to Australia from England, has returned to Soumbaya', Java. There he will join a steamer and complete the voyage to Sydney on November 22. . ? CANBERRA, Nov. 6. It was announced in the House of Representatives to-day that the rank of air-oommodore—the highest that can be obtained in the Australian Air Force—is to be conferred on WingCommander Kingsford Smith.
Who yesterday arrived at Wyndham, Australia, after flying from England.
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18170, 7 November 1930, Page 7
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