BY ROCKET TO N.Z.
(Press. Assn.-
SHATTERED DREAMS of TWO AUSTRALIAN INVENTORS
— By Telegraph — Copyright).
SYDNEY, Wednesday. Explosions in a garage at Roseville shattered for the time being the dream of two men, Kenneth Foreman and Ernest Fraser, ' who hoped to fiy to New Zealand in a rocket. The men stated that they had been experimenting on explosive propulsion for a number of years, and on perfecting the small model that was destroyed intended to liuild a "mansized" rocket to cross the Tasman. Their first model, Foreman claims, fired from Wollongong, landed within six feet of the chosen spot on one of five islands 3S miles away.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 292, 4 August 1932, Page 5
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