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...flat broke when he got to Australia, and the longest leg, 1,200 miles across the Tasman Sea, was still ahead. Once more Major Hayter went to work. He put in two varied years laboring as a longshoreman, crawfishing, even drew pay as a hired hand on an outback farm before his bank balance was equal to re-equipping Sheila111. In mid-March he stood south again until he hit the Roaring Forties, off the southwest tip of the continent. There he simply "put in three reefs and set course east...
Paved highway took the contestant across the Northern Territory on the long (1,051 miles) run to Darwin. South and west across the "Outback" to the coast, the road was a nightmare of anthills and black "bulldust." Angry stockmen, who declared that the cars were frightening cattle, locked their gates and forced the travelers to detour. Indignant aborigines brandished tomahawks at the noisy invaders. Bush flies descended in swarms on bone-tired drivers taking catnaps. And in the tiny pearl-fishing town of Broome, the car crews found hardly enough food and beer to go around. By then, 88 entrants...
...Outback Dentist...
...income of this Harvardman is $7,000 a year. Expenses run $2,500, dental supplies, hotel bills, but mostly oil and petrol. In the outback, petrol often runs $1 a gallon...
...Canberra, the bleak inland capital that has already cost Australia more than $50,000,000, a "southerly burster" caught up with Gloucester, raised floods that temporarily marooned him in Great House, gave him a case of catarrh. He had to cancel a few engagements with the "outback country...