Port Darwin, Oct, 11.
Miss Joan Batten, the New Zealand airwoman, achieved her life ambition to-day when she established a new record for a solo flight from England to Australia, The aviatrix, who left Lympne, in Rent, at 4.10 am, Greenwich Mean ime, on Monday, landed here at 113 this morning, G.M-T., thus benting the record set Up by Bir. H. F. Broad-Bent, who few from England to Australia last November in six days, 21 hours and nineteen minutes, by 23 hours and seventeen minutes.
Miss Batten made her flight in the to same Percival Mew-Gull machine in Which she dashed across the South Aantic from Dakar to Brazil last November in the record-breaking time of thirteen hours and fifteen minutes—Reuter
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