MISS JEAN BATTEN.
DEPARTURE FOR AUSTRALIA. MAY FLY BACK TO ENGLAND. WELLINGTON, Monday. Miss Jean Batten will leave Wellington j to-morrow afternoon by the Maunganui for Australia to attend the Melbourne centenary celebrations. She is undecided as to whether she will return to New Zealand for. the summer or leave for England after the finish of the centenary air race. When "interviewed to-day she could not say definitely whether her return journey to England would be made by air or not. Miss Batten spent today attending to her machine, which will be stowed on one of the Maunganui’s decks, and in getting a clearance certificate from the quarantine authorities for her cat “Buddy.” Miss Batten is taking away two interesting mementoes presented to her in New Zealand. The first is an inscribed jewel case of polished knotted totara given to her by the GovernorGeneral, Lord Bledisloe, and Lady Bledisloe, and the other souvenir is a Maori canoe steering paddle carved by Rotorua Maoris.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19364, 18 September 1934, Page 5
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163MISS JEAN BATTEN. Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19364, 18 September 1934, Page 5
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