PARACHUTE DESCENT.
CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 20. A. E. Eastwood, at Addington Show Grounds, City, made a successful parachute descent from a height oi about 3000 feelt. He was taken up in -im aeroplane by Capt. Ewan Dickson, and dropped from it by means of two parachutes. A north-east wind that was blowing caused him to miss in calculating his landing place, with the result that he came down on top of a. cottage in Hillmorten, about half a mile from where 5000 people were waiting for him on the Show Grounds. He sustained a sprain of the ankle as he struck the roof of the cottage, but otherwise was uninjured.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1922, Page 4
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109PARACHUTE DESCENT. Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1922, Page 4
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