SOUVENIR HUNTERS
fi-Jiivonir hunters were ; quickly on the scene of Sunday’s forced landing at Christchurch when a Motli aeroplane was damaged. Before the pilot lin'd left the site of the mishap, small hoys were searching round for piece--of the damaged fuselage. Some adults began to help .themselves to parts of the machine, and had jt -not been for Staff Sergeant-Major F. Brown, cf the "Defence the .nac-li-ino would have quickly been stripped. Mr Brown lives close by the scene ol the .landing, and he, with one or two others, took charge until the Air Force officers and Police-Sergeant Murray arrived. As it was, two men nearly came to blows over a broken piece of the propeller. One man tried to stop another from taking it artav, and, while the argument was going on, someone else stole the piece. Pieces of the painted three-ply wood which formed the fuselage were popular with those who were keen on a memento and as there were a number of strips lying around, no one vas stopped from taking them. These scon became exhausted, however, and it was when'" the public attempted to remove pieces from the machine that Sergeant-Major Brown stepped in. The lire extinguisher was taken, and
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1929, Page 7
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204SOUVENIR HUNTERS Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1929, Page 7
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