AVIATION
AMPHIBIAN ’PLANE
for NEW ZEALAND Alll SERVICE
(United Press Association—By ElectricTelegraph.— Copyright.)
(Received this day at noon.) LONDON, Nov. 27
Saunders and Roe are building a machine of the same ampinLyan type as that cabled on 10th. November, for. use in the New Zealand Air Seivice from Wellington. It will be tested a fortnight hence. IN THE AIR. ASHBURTON, November 28. Wing-Commander S. Grant Dalton and Captain M. Buckley, Officer Commanding at Wigram, landed at Ashburton after being forced to return from tbe south. They left Wigram at 6.30 this morning in a Moth with the intention of flying to Dunedin, but ran into heavy rain at Hampden where they had a difficulty in picking up the cliffs. They landed in a paddock for bait' an hour, and being by then wet through, set off on the return, landed near Oamarti, and came on to Ashburton, landing with almost an empty tank. Captain Buckley said they had not sufficient petrol to taxi across the oeiodrome. They left for Wigram early in the afternoon.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1929, Page 5
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