AVIATION.
A Remuera (Auckland) resident reports having observed what he took to bo an airship in the dusk of Friday evening. Mr James Kamphi'l, who resides with bin son-in-law in Brighton road, Remuera, states that on Friday, at about 6 p.m., he' was on tho balcony of his house. His attention was attracted by an object in the sky towards Tin’, due north from where ho was watching. Ho observed its movements for a full half hour. Tho mysterious object, which Mr Hemphill is convinced was an airship, was alternatively rising and falling. He watched it through a pair of glasses, the supposed airship being easily visible except when hidden for a few minutes behind a cloud. Mr Hemphill, who says no was unable to make out any details of the aerial craft, called his grandson to watch it too. When he returned subsequent to fetching some other people to witness the unusual sight, the object had disappeared.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 63, 19 March 1913, Page 8
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158AVIATION. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 63, 19 March 1913, Page 8
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