MISS AROHA CLIFFORD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 19 January 1931, Page 2

MISS AROHA CLIFFORD

RETURNING TO NEW ZEALAND Mr W. L. Clifford and Miss Aroha Clifford, of Garden road, Fendalton, who left Christchurch last July for a trip to England, intend leaving London on their return journey to the Dominion on 13th February by the Rangitane. Miss Clifford, who was the first club lady air-pilot in New Zealand, had had considerable experience in flying before she left for England. In her own Avro-Avian aeroplane, which she sold before her departure for England, to Mr Berryman, of Wellington, she made flights to Auckland, Wellington, Hawera, Hastings, and Dunedin. Since she has been in London she has studied for her ground-engineers’ certificate, and a few weeks ago her father brought for her a Puss-Moth aeroplane. In her new machine she intends flying, with a companion, from England to Constantinople, and back to England, via Athens. The trip is scheduled to occupy about eighteen days, but Miss Clifford, who is anxious to see something of .the countries through which she passes, does not intend to hurry unduly, and expects to be much longer on the journey. The areoplane will be' brought to New Zealand on the Rangitane. Mr Clifford's second daughter, Mrs Sheriff-Hulton, will probably accompany her father and sister to New Zealand.