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1928
1928 - 0381.PDF
MAY 17, 1928 TWO AERIAL VIEWS FROM AUSTRALIA : On the left, Federal Parliament House, Canberra, in course of construction. On the right, a view of the River Yarra, Melbourne, approaching the Botanical Gardens. thing, medical science has advanced, and nowadays it is not fair to expect the squatter to live and bring up his family outside the range of reasonable medical help. For another thing, the modern woman, quite reasonably, expects more than would content her grandmother ; and unless women will go out into the undeveloped tracts, those tracts will never be settled. The telephone has spread far and wide, and it has done much to ameliorate life. But the telephone cannot actually bring the doctor to the bedside of the patient, or take the patient to hospital, as the aeroplane is constantly doing. Even in lesser matters, the telephone, the cable, and wireless, invaluable as they are, can never quite take the place of letters speedily delivered. It is a matter of immense satisfaction, and a cause of pride to the whole British race, that Australia has actually done what might have been expected of her. Australians themselves may sometimes say that she has not done all that she might have done—everyone can say that if they are honest. But Australia has done right well in making a start with airways and in this great movement has given the Empire a lead. In the very near future she intends to do very much more. Historical From very early days Australians became prominent among flying pioneers. In 1892 Lawrence Hargreaves commenced a series of valuable experiments with kites and gliders in Sydney. Capt. Jack Duigan in 1911 built and flew an aero- plane of his own design, fitted with a Green engine. The skeleton is now in the Melbourne Museum. In 1910 Harry Houdini, the " Handcuff King," who was an American, K ffi An aerial view of Federal Par- liament House. t§i m m 345
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