AIRMAN’S DEATH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 48, 25 January 1938, Page 2

AIRMAN’S DEATH.

FINE CAREER TERMINATED. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Jan. 24. ’ Mr Theodore Quentin Paviour-Smith, the New Zealander who was killed when a Royal Air Force ’plane collided with a civil ’plane in Hertfordshire, was in his 30th year. He was born at Dannevirke. After his education at the Dannevirke High School he secured a position with the Bank of Australasia and then went into the dairy-produce export business in the Taranaki district. Later he went to Wellington, where he was employed for several years by James Smith, Ltd. In 1931 lie became interested in flying and ho received liis first tuition at ‘ the Wellington Aero Club. While he was a pilot member he won tho Stellin Cup for aerobatics. Mr Paviour-Smith had about 150 flying hours to his credit when he left for England in 1934. There he studied blind-flying' and then joined the Plane Advertising Co., for whom he performed- large amounts of banner flying for the next 12 months. When h© terminated that appointment he joined the De Havilland School of Flying, having previously gained instructor’s tickets. He was given a position as instructor at Hatfield, where he remained to the time of his death. For a period Mr Pav-iour-Smith served with the Royal Air Force Auxiliary in Scotland, and then he joined the Royal Air Force Reserve.