MANY PRESENTS FOR AIRMEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 473, 1 October 1928, Page 13

MANY PRESENTS FOR AIRMEN

MAORI MATS AND FUR WAISTCOATS (Special to THE SXJN) BLENHEIM, Sunday. During the week-end the Southern Cross airmen received a number of valuable presents, including one from Auckland On behalf of the Maoris of Marlborough Mr. A. Rore presented the cocommanders with a magnificent Maori mat apiece. Mrs. S. T. Evatt, provincial commissioner, and Mrs. Brookes, of the RenWiek Girl Guides, presented bouquets which are to be taken to Australia in the Southern Cross and presented to Kingsford Smith's mother and to Mrs Ulm. Tho Marlborough Aero Club presented each of the four flyers with a handsome gold cigarette case. Miss Smith, of AVellington, who had noted in Ulm’s narrative of the Tasman flight a statement to the effect that “it waa very cold and we are still shivering,” sent a fur waistcoat for each flyer. Mr. George Edwards, of Birkenhead, Auckland, presented a beautiful woollen . floor mat for the Southern Cross cabin. The central design of the mat is a kiwi, symbolical of the Dominion’s aero clubs, "which are anxious to fly but have no wings.” Mr. H. Lloyd, of Wellington, sent a greenstone tiki far each of the party.