A DEMONSTRATION FLIGHT.
PIONEER AIR WOMAN. EFFORT TO CONVINCE NEW ZEALAND. (UKITKD ST.r.S.S ASSOCIATION—IJLECTBIO TELEOU/VPH—COPYRIGHT.) (Received (September 3rd, 10.40 p.ia>) LONDON, September 2. Wearing a battered leather jacket and with kit strapped to her shoulders, and looking every inch a tradesman, the septuagenarian airwoman, Mlsb H. B. Hewlett, boarded a Dutch airliner at Croydon. She said her journey was a crusade. If ttio pilot became ill she could take the controls. She declares that New Zealand is her adopted country, and that she intends throwing all her enthusiasm into the task ol convincing Australia and New Zealand that they cannot afford longer to neglect or forgo air-links with the remainder of the world. [Mrs Hewlett intends flying to Batavia. She plans to come over by steamer to New Zealand from Sydney.]
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20333, 4 September 1931, Page 11
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