Plane's Forced Landing.
The last available aeroplane owned by the Hawke's Bay and East Coast Aero Club was put out of commission when making a forced landing on the Napier Aerodrome at 4.10 p.m. yesterday, after the engine had failed when the plane was at a height of 200 ft. Neither the pilot, Mr P. Barron, nor the passenger, Mr P. Jessop, was injured, although the machine was extensively damaged. Error in Chart. An error of half a mile in the charting of Cuvier Island (Hauraki Gulf) has been discovered by the Admiralty survey ship Endeavour, at present surveying the area from Mercury Bay to Great Barrier Island. The error has been communicated to the Marine Department and the attention of mariners to what is one of the most important! corrections made in recent years in; New Zealand charts has been drawn by the usual special notice. >
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1938, Page 6
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147Plane's Forced Landing. Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1938, Page 6
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