N. Caledonia—Queensland
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Successful Fight Pleases French
From Our Own Correspondent.
NOUMEA, December 2.
ON November 21 history was made by the first aeroplane flight from New Caledonia to Australia by Mr. Victor Roffey, a young Australian, who has been conducting air flights in the Colony for some months past.
Great interest was taken by the local population in the flight, which has been under consideration for some time and it was with the utmost en thusiasm that the news of Mr. Roffey’s safe landing on the Queensland coast was duly received some hours after his departure.
Careful preparations were made for the flight and. early on the morning of the date mentioned, the young pilot, amid the good wishes of his friends, left Ouaoo, on the West Coast, for his trip, covering some 700 nautical miles.