MISTAKEN IDEA
Australian Pilot and Tasman Air Race A mistaken impression of the offer made last year by a Napier business man of £500 as the nueleus of a prizemoney fund for a trans-Tasman airrace ending at Napier has been formed by an Australian flyer. In .. letter to the Napier Thirty Thousand Club he states that. he is perfectly willing to make a flight for the £500 offered, and will land at Napier. " The flyer, Mr. T. S. de Lacy, states in his letter that he is an Aucklandtrained pilot, and, although a reply to a former letter explained the position and pointed out that the offer had lapsed^ because of Government refusal to sanction the flight, he has again written wanting to know 1 ' more about tho £50Q."
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBHETR19370519.2.114
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 104, 19 May 1937, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
129MISTAKEN IDEA Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 104, 19 May 1937, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in