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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 4 (August 1, 1930)

Woman Wins King's Prize

Woman Wins King's Prize.

The hand that used to rock the cradle now pulls the trigger. Miss Marjorie Foster won the King's Prize at Bisley, and not long before Miss Winifred Brown won the King's Cup (air race). These royal exploits (drawing forth the King's congratulations) followed that other great epic of the air—Miss Amy Johnson's England-Australia flight. It is wonderful how flight appeals to women, and it is not unlikely that a woman flier of the Atlantic will offer herself. Kingsford Smith's east-to-west triumph resulted ultimately in his bringing the Southern Cross back to the spot (Oakland, San Francisco) where the world-girdling aeroplane started its career. There is a good deal in the name of this famous machine, for it symbolises the advent of the New South into competition with the Old North for leadership in world-progress. A few centuries ago European navigators started out across the Atlantic to discover America and the Pacific countries. To-day an Australian air-navigator crosses the Pacific first, and leaves the Atlantic for his last lap. Thus the centre of gravity is ever shifting, and the newest lands have their representatives in the van of technical and scientific advance.

The Last Journey. The train carrying the remains of the late Sir Joseph Ward, at Invercargill railway station.

The Last Journey.
The train carrying the remains of the late Sir Joseph Ward, at Invercargill railway station.