LANDS PLACE IN BUSH - The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955) - 29 Mar 1947 (original) (raw)

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Sat 29 Mar 1947 - The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955)
Page 7 - LANDS PLACE IN BUSH

Making a risky landing on a

strip of ground in the bush, pri

vate plane owner and mine pro

prietor Lang Hancock rescued

Mulga Downs station manager's

The station was isolated by

floods and the ground sodden.

Hancock reconnoitred his landing

ground from the air, risked strik

ing a soft spot and overturning

Flying doctor H. Campbell

Pope's Dragon aircraft was too

heavy to land on the soft ground.

Hancock volunteered to make the

Rescued was the son of station

manager George Turvey, who was

himself given treatment after a

battle with flooded country a fort

When the call to Mulga Downs

was received, Flying Doctor Pope

was flying to Marble Bar.

Late in February, seriously ill

George Turvey was being driven

by car by his wife to Wittenoom

Gorge when the car became hope

lessly bogged. One rescue party

also became bogged. A second

reached the sick man, one mem

ber plodding 20 miles through

KALGOORLIE, Sat. — Sixteen

tons of ore from the Ajax West

gold mine at Riverina, near Men

zies, have averaged 59.3 dwts. a

The holder, Mr. P. J. Collins,

crushed the ore at Lady Harriet

mill for a return of 42½ ounces.