’PLANES AT KAIHERE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5470, 4 September 1929, Page 2

’PLANES AT KAIHERE.

A SECOND VISITOR. STUNTS FOR PASSENGERS. The old saying that it never rains but it pours applies to Kaihere and aeroplanes. Last week Kaihere was favoured as being the first place on Hauraki Plains to have an aeroplane land in its district when Mr J. D. Hewett flew to his home in a Moth. On Sunday a second ’plane arrived and landed out of the fog in a settler’s paddock. This was Mr Douglas Mill, of Auckland, Mr Hewett’s partner in the Air Transport and Survey Co., Ltd. He had been instructed to fly over a flaxmill to find the selected landing ground at Mangawhero Road, but on account of the fog he mistook the flaxmill at Torehape for the one at Kaihere, and accordingly landed in Mr J. Douslin’s paddock. Mr Hewett, anticipating that his partner would have difficulty in finding the landing field, went up to meet him, but failed to do so on account of the fog, and had to search for some time before he would find his own way home. Since Mr Hewett has had his Moth s at Kaihere a great number of people have been for short flights. The story is told of one passenger who asked that the airman loop-the-loop. When this was done the passenger became sick, and was glad to get back to earth. Taunted, he had another guinea’s worth; and this time went through all manner of stunts without feeling ill.