NEW ZEALAND FLIGHT
DOUBTFUL POSSIBILITY - BUT PLANS GOING AHEAD SYDNEY,- Monday. Although Dr. N. Boulton admits that there is no certainty that his monoplane, buiit two years ago in a Hyde backyard, will attempt a Tasman crossing, repairs and alterations are going ahead. Plans were for a landing on Ninety-Mile Beach, "New Zealand, as Mr. Norman ("Wizard") Smith attempted to break the world's land j speed record. According to Mrs. Boulton, the machine has been in the air only twice — once with her husband as pilot, and later with a test pilot. Its performance was not impressive, and it has since been wrecked in a gale.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 108, 29 December 1931, Page 6
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