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Show "Hopping Off." Gundagai is a country center in New South Wales which Mr. Holman, the state premier, will not soon forget. The premier went to Gundagai in a 1914 Curtiss flying machine which had flown more than 4,000 hours," whereas its war-time existence would have been 100 hours. The landing place was In a hollow paddock surrounded by ring-barked gum trees, and a portion of the paddock had been plowed. When the visitors left Gundagai the wheels at first stuck in the soft soil and the machine taxied almost up to the wire fence. With the same skill wheh had won him his Military Cross in France", the pilot "hopped" the fence, banked to the left, then to the right, passed between gum trees and rose neatly and safely, amid hearty cheering from spectators. |