PARACHUTE DROPS ON SUNDAY NEXT
AIR PAGEANT AT TAUHARA DROME The first parachute descents to be made in Taupo are scheduled to take place at Tauhara Aerodrome on Sunday next, December 19. The Maori Queen Carnival Committee has engaged the veteran parachutist Mr Brian Musson, to supervise the "drops." Mr Musson will himself make a descent. There will be four parachutists in all, one of whom will be 22 year old Miss Peggy Means. Miss Means is the only professional woman parachutist and the first woman to be so classified in New Zealand. She has made 13 descents and is to visit Australia shorty. Mr Musson has made 138 descents in New Zealand and Australia since 1948 and holds the Australasian record, a drop of 12,500 feet, which he made at Matamata in May 1951. Mr Musson is the only licensed free drop instructor in New Zealand. Amongst those to drop on Sunday next will be the old favourite, Father Christmas, to whom Mr Musson is lending his gear.
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Taupo Times, Volume III, Issue 151, 17 December 1954, Page 5
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