“CHALLENGE” MARKS INAUGURAL FLIGHT.—A Maori club being examined by the Australian and New Zealand Ministers of Civil Aviation, Senator Paltridge (left) and Mr Mathison, at Mascot, Sydney, on Tuesday after the arrival of the first Tasman Empire Airways Lockheed Electra airliner, Aotearoa, from Auckland. The club was used by a group of Sydney Maoris in a traditional haka and tribal challenge to greet Mr Mathison and the new airliner.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29070, 5 December 1959, Page 11
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69“CHALLENGE” MARKS INAUGURAL FLIGHT.—A Maori club being examined by the Australian and New Zealand Ministers of Civil Aviation, Senator Paltridge (left) and Mr Mathison, at Mascot, Sydney, on Tuesday after the arrival of the first Tasman Empire Airways Lockheed Electra airliner, Aotearoa, from Auckland. The club was used by a group of Sydney Maoris in a traditional haka and tribal challenge to greet Mr Mathison and the new airliner. Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29070, 5 December 1959, Page 11
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