ALOFT AT 100

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1932, Page 4

ALOFT AT 100

LADY CENTENARIAN’S FLIGHT.

AN ENJOYABLE EXPERIENCE

(Per Press Association Copyright .)

HASTINGS, November 29. Mrs Mary Ann Adamson, who entered her hundredth year last Sunday, made aviation history, to-day by going lor half an hour’s flight in one of the Hawke’s Bay and East! Coast % Aero Club’s machines. She thoroughly enjoyed her. experience, and during the flight she spoke jauntily to the pilot, Flying Officer Gerrard, about the sights that lay below her.

It is of tlie remarkable features . of her trip that she was seeing from the air a town which she 1 knew when it contained not a • single formed road, street or footpath. She had ; long ex», V ~ pressed her regret that she had never been up in a plane, and to-day’s'trip/ was offered to her as marking the opening of it carnival being held "It Hastings this week. , . ; At the end of the flight, she ivm»»v crowned Queen o fthe carnival by the Mayor, Mr Roach, and was cheered by ■> a large gathering of people. Speeches of congratulation were made by Mayor Roach, Mr J. S. Baton (Napier Commissioner), Mr Vigor Grown (Mayor of Napier), 'and others. Mrs Adamson, whose seventy-year-old son was one of the spectators, arrived' in New Zealand 97 years ago, and 'it is claimed for her that she is 1 the oldest: colonial-born Briton.