Flying Doctor Wing Changes Inland Life
A long Australian reminiscence contrasts bush era hardships with modern air medical service. It recounts anxious New Year crowds at a Balarat bandstand, rural gossip, old Mrs Chip and Mrs Flip, and a dramatic medical journey via the Flying Doctor service from Normanton to Burketown, Cloncurry, and back, totaling 661 miles in one day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wimble’s Ridge
Bingle's Bend
Bepe
Chip
Flip
Andy
Blake
Sandy
Arial Medical Service
Cloncurry
A. R. Gickers
Burketown
Normanton
Burketown Hospital
Cheap Excursion Trains Aid Statewide Travel In Australia
The Railway Department announces a series of cheap excursion trains to serve nearly all of New South Wales, running about a week before Christmas holidays. Single fares cover round trips with options to depart for Sydney or intermediate stops, full details available at railway stations and in business columns. The piece highlights doctors’ service since 1928, long distances covered, and the value of railway access for isolated communities, urging advance preparations and public remembrance of traveling medical staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railway Department
New South Walon
Atd
Sydney
Aereal Medical Service
Bingle's Bend
Hushman
Parkes Gazette Snapshot of Local News and Oddities
A collage of Parkes area items and misadventures spans from a digression about the Billabong Creek to a fatal accident near Singleton, a comic tale of a man losing 20 pounds to drink, mining developments at Parkes Forbes road, near misses with lightning, vandalism at St James Church in Goulburn, legal notices on wages cases, red back spiders in the Moree region, and a police-stopped traveling auction at Tibbo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milberodale
Singleton
George Leslie
Parkes
Spicer
Tames
Goulburn
Aberdeen
Alfred King
Victor Thompson
James Freeman
Wallington
Moree
Moree Hospital
Musgrave
Sydney
Ikin
Tibbo
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Jomen
Asi
A. Crean
Percy Street
England
Australia
Bury Horms Sore Se Meer
Aldwells Royal Reserve
Granys
Vani
Tha Bulletin
Gesband
Whi Carter
Hurstville
Machattie Park
Balarat
Blank Street
Clog
Hingousip
von Suppe
Hoffman
Jimmy
Putney
AEB
Legion of the Blest
Karen Morley
Washington
Billabong Creek
Crick
Kayuga
Par~kes
Harry Hull
Hall
Paling
Victor
Talking
Paling’s
George Street
Charley Murphy
APU
All Sahdat
West
MS UD
Nandacda
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