SOUVENIR HUNTERS
STRIP WRECKED MACHINE Wellington, Wednesday. News that an aeroplane was wreck--ed on the hill country overlooking Tawa Flat spread quickly, and besides many residents in the locality, a number of sight-seers came from the city to undertake the steep climb. ocveral young married couples took their child ren as young as three or four years old with them. ; ; One man, hadly smitten with th'e madness of souvenir cdlecting, carried away almost sufiicient trophies to stock a curiosity shop. Assorted articles bulged from his pockets. . , A carriera man secured the magneto from the engine. A .taxi driver took
one of the cockpit shutters. Another, intensely proud of his. acquisxtions, gathered a small case, foiv folding inaps," f ormerly fastened inside the cockpit. The flrst of those to reach the machine took away soine self seL ected rewards- for their journey, and it was a much souvenir tattered machine they left behind. The aero1 club salvaged the engine and odds and ends and burned the remainder. '
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 364, 27 October 1932, Page 5
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166SOUVENIR HUNTERS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 364, 27 October 1932, Page 5
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