PERSPEX AMONG THE POPPIES

Press, Volume C, Issue 29498, 27 April 1961, Page 21

PERSPEX AMONG THE POPPIES

Incident During Timaru Fly-Past (From Our Own Reporter) TIMARU, April 26. Among the poppies dropped from a Cessna aircaft, and an Auster aircraft in the vicinity of the war memorial duran air formation salute, held in conjunction with an Anzac Day service, was a perspex side window which fell from the Auster and landed on the veranda of a house in Memorial avenue then crashed down on to the path behind a man. his wife, and four children. Mrs W. S. Watson, whose home is at 11 Memorial avenue, said that before the service commenced the two aircraft flew overhead and dropped poppies. No poppies landed hear the house. “We were watching the aircraft from the gate, and then there was a crash behind us,” she said. Mrs Watson said the perspex was about 14 inches square, and the thickness of a pane of glass. The fly-past by aircraft flown by ex-servicemen pilots is a regular feature of Anzac Day services, but in view of yesterday’s incident, which constituted a definite danger to the public, it is felt that stricter control is necessary to guard against a repetition. The explanation given to “The Press” was that the window, which runs in a groove, was dislodged when the poppies were being scattered.