- Title
- Gee Ming Ket presenting address to Amy Johnson
- Date
- May 1930
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade
- External Url
- http://hdl.handle.net/10070/3408
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- Title
- Presenting address
- Description
Gee Ming Ket presenting address to Amy Johnson on behalf of the Chinese residents of Australia, from left to right, Dolly Yuen, Selina Hassan, Amy Johnson, Gee Ming Ket and Anthony ?, at Government House
- Type
- catalogue record + digital image
- Control
- 771\771-0014, PH0771/0014
- Source
Chan collection, c. 1930 - 1940?, 0771; Northern Territory Library. Details
- Rights
- Reproduction rights owned by the Northern Territory Library.
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- Title
- When aviatrix Amy Johnson landed in Darwin in May 1930, becoming the first woman pilot to fly from London to Australia solo, she was given a rousing reception by the population.
- Description
The town's Chinese community gave her a special presentation and wrote an open letter to the Northern Territory Times congratuating her: 'The incident proves that there is a great force in this world...hitherto untried or so hampered in many ways that its best has not come to light. Now we can see that given equal opportunity we can look to women to provide not only the great brain power requried in the medical legal political judicial journalist and other fields; but acts of heroism and gallantry...surpassing anything of the kind recorded by either sex in the history of the world.'
- Date
- May 1930
- Type
- Published photograph
- Control
- p.119
- Source
James, Barbara, No Man's Land: Women of the Northern Territory, Collins Publishers Australia, Australia, 1989. Details
Photograph provided courtesy of Alec Fong Lim.
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Created: 29 March 2006, Last modified: 18 August 2006
