"' ' ' ■ Green--and Hahn Photo. rA short, impressive ceremony look place at the Air Force station at Wigram yesterday on the occasion of the last official visit to the station of their Excellencies Lord and Lady Galivay. The ceremony took the form of a inarch past by a thousand airmen, followed by a fly past of aircraft. Sections of both these ceremonies are illustrated.
Exploding a bomb which, had been dropped by enemy aircraft on the parade ground at- a British aerodrome. The bomb did not burst at the time and buried itself deep in the ground, wliere : it'ywas later destroyed by the station's armament officer. The photograph gives a good idea of the power of, a bomb, but.the effect is very different from that of an explosion on the surface. s ■ .
! • . "Evening TbstV- Photo. The centre court ofthe modem block of fiats erected'"bythe Government at Berhampore, and officially opened yesterday after' noon by the Minister of Housing, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong. Left, the Minister speaking at the opening ceremony, with Mr* McKeen, member for the district, and Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, Mayor of Wellington, listening.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 108, 2 November 1940, Page 7
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186"' ' ' ■ Green--and Hahn Photo. rA short, impressive ceremony look place at the Air Force station at Wigram yesterday on the occasion of the last official visit to the station of their Excellencies Lord and Lady Galivay. The ceremony took the form of a inarch past by a thousand airmen, followed by a fly past of aircraft. Sections of both these ceremonies are illustrated. Exploding a bomb which, had been dropped by enemy aircraft on the parade ground at- a British aerodrome. The bomb did not burst at the time and buried itself deep in the ground, wliere: it'ywas later destroyed by the station's armament officer. The photograph gives a good idea of the power of, a bomb, but.the effect is very different from that of an explosion on the surface. s ■ . ! • . "Evening TbstV- Photo. The centre court ofthe modem block of fiats erected'"bythe Government at Berhampore, and officially opened yesterday after' noon by the Minister of Housing, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong. Left, the Minister speaking at the opening ceremony, with Mr* McKeen, member for the district, and Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, Mayor of Wellington, listening. Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 108, 2 November 1940, Page 7
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