Ray Parer’s Fast Flight
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Australia To Papua In
Six Hours
From Our Own Correspondent.
Pt. Moresby, Aug. 20.
FLYING from Somerset, Cape York, in the Moth ’plane in which he and Mr. Hemsworth competed in the England to Australia air race last year, Mr. Ray Parer landed at Port Moresby Aerodrome on August 10, at 6 o’clock in the evening, after a non-stop flight of only six hours.
Mr. Parer left on the following Monday, August 12, for Wau, New Guinea, but was forced to land on Hisiu Beach to the west of Port Moresby, owing to engine trouble. Returning to Port Moresby, he took off finally on August 13, and reached Wau early that morning.