TRIBUTE TO AIRMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 191, 15 August 1933, Page 9

TRIBUTE TO AIRMEN.

MEMORIAL IN WELLINGTON.

TROPHY FOR COMPETITION.

A graceful tribute to the: memory of two Wellington airmen has been paid by members of the New Plymouth Aero Club. In October of last year Messrs. F. Gresser and G. B. S. King, members of the Wellington Aero Club, were killed when their machine, flying through dense fog when returning from NewPlymouth, crashed on a hilltop above Tawa Flat. The two airmen had been visiting New Plymouth to assist a pageant staged by the New Plymouth Aero Club to encourage interest in aviation, and news of the tragedy was received as sadly in New Plymouth, as it was in Wellington,

The Wellington club lias now received from the New Plymouth club a Gresser-King Memorial Trophy of quite unusual design, with the suggestion that it should be offered for annual competition among club members. In place of the conventional cup or bowl style, the trophy is a substantia! pedestal in ebony, carrying ae its main feature the cowl front and propeller of a light aeroplane in miniature, with a surround of laurel wreath, and inscribed plate below, aud surmounting the pedestal is an eagle with wings raised to take off in flight. Oxidised silver finish gives the design a quiet tone, aud the trophy is particularly effective aud distinctive.