TWO AIR ACCIDENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21583, 20 November 1941, Page 6

TWO AIR ACCIDENTS

NIGHT FLYING TRAINING TRAINEE KILLED IN CRASH PILOT HURT WHILE LANDING EXERCISES AT BLENHEIM (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Thursday Two air accidents, one fatal, were reported from the Royal New Zealand Air Force station at Blenheim today. A machine crashed during night flying and the pilot, flying solo, was killed. He was:— Leading-Aircraftman Felix Patrick Ulenberg:, whose next-of-kin is Mrs A. T. Ulenberg, New Plymouth. The cause of the accident is obscure. A court of inquiry is being held. Leading-Aircraftman Ulenberg was born at Stratford in 1915 and was educated at the New Plymouth Boys’ High School. In the other accident, which occurred during landing following night flying training, an officer was severely injured. He was: Pilot-Officer Clive Dudley Highet, whose next-of-kin is his father, Mr G. C. Highet, Wellington. The other occupant of the machine, Leading-Aircraftman Thomas Leslie Cowin, was not injured. A court of inquiry is being held.

CUSTODY OF CHILD

NEW ZEALANDER SUCCEEDS CHARGES AGAINST FATHER United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Nov. 20, 3.15 p.m.) BRISBANE, Nov. 20 Mrs Phoebe Maude Linton, aged 32 years, of Northcote, Auckland, who accused her father, Joseph Coleman, and her stepmother, Ella Coleman, of having kidnapped her daughter, Gwenda Marie Linton, aged seven years, from New Zealand, has been awarded the custody of the child in the Supreme Court. Mrs Linton followed her parents and daughter from New Zealand through Melbourne and Sydney to Brisbane, where she located the child with her parents. The judge said Mrs Linton obtained an order for the custody of the child in New Zealand and the respondents were lucky not to be in gaol for having taken the child away when custody proceedings were pending.