Women in aviation and nurse, who was unable to secure work flying proposed to airline executives that women be allowed to act as hostesses on planes. She was hired on a three-month trial basis by Boeing Air Transport and selected the first seven flight attendants for airlines, requiring them to be under 115 pounds, nurses and unmarried. Women continued to break records. In 1930, Amy Johnson an English aviator, made the first England to Australia flight by a woman. Antonie Strassmann, a German emigre to the US, became the first woman to successfully cross the Atlantic aboard an aircraft, traveling in May 1932
History of Australian cricket from 1918–19 to 1930 The New Zealand team that toured England in the 1927 season played one first-class match against New South Wales in Australia on their way back to New Zealand. After a fairly successful tour of England, and in the light of the Imperial Cricket Conference decision in 1926 to extend Test cricket to new teams outside the existing triumvirate of England, Australia and South Africa, the New Zealanders were keen for international experience. Unfortunately, the match in Sydney did not help their cause. New South Wales scored 571 at more than two runs a minute. Bill Merritt, the bowling star of