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'The Hon. Hubert Montmorency Ralston("Monty") is a "good for nothing" son of an English lord, who packs him off with his valet, Thompson, on a steamer bound for Australia. This proves a judicious move, for the young Englishman has good in him and Australia is thc place to bring it out. His father has made arrangements for the Rev. Arthur Stanhope to meet him on the wharf. Monty, however, is determined that the parson will not see him if he sees the parson first. By a strange coincidence he meets and builds up a friendship with the McBrides, a typical Australian bush family, in Syd-ney for thc Sheep Show, and great friends of the Rev. Arthur Stanhope himself. The "Flying Padre'' as the latter is called, makes an immediate appeal to the two Englishmen and they become intensely interested in his ambitious plans for entering a self-constructed plane in the forthcoming Centenary Air Race. Thompson is a particularly capable mechanic, and he works hard alongside Stanhope in building the "Koala," as the All-Australian plane is to be named. "Monty" succeeds in getting his father to finance the project, and soon everything is ready for the race. "Monty" and Thompson are the co-pilots, the "flying parson" not being able to leave his far flung parishioners.

'lt would be unfair to divulge further the plot of this exciting screen production for the interest is brilliantly sustained right up to the final smashing climax.'

Source:

'Splendid Fellows', Morning Bulletin, 11 July 1936, p.11.