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Misses Robertson and Howell, the Melbourne motorists who are the first Australian women to motor around Australia, and who set out on this undertaking on June 2, have reached Darwin, after a successful though arduous journey. Naturally, their experiences have been many and varied and as they are not attempting a speed record, they have had ample time to enjoy the unusual scenes through which they have passed. They followed a route from Adelaide to Oodnadatta via Kingoouya, instead of the more usual route, via Marree, but owing to unusually heavy rains, they encountered some difficulties, and were bogged several times. However, with the true pioneer spirit — without which these girls would never have undertaken the journey — they extricated their ‘Lancia’ and drove on. For negotiating stretches of drift sand they had to resort to laying down 40-yard lengths of coir matting to provide traction for the wheels. The ladies who are travelling on ‘Shell’ Spirit and Oil throughout, carried extra supplies of petrol from Oodnadatta, the southern railhead, in an attempt to reach the northern railhead at Katherine without replenishing supplies en route. They will return through Queensland and New South Wales.
