FORMER N.Z. MAN KILLED
Accident In Britain (N.Z. Press Association) INVERCARGILL. May 7. A former Invercargill man, Ronald Thompson Howden, was killed in a motor-cycle accident near Southend, Essex, England, on Sunday. Mr Howden, an airline captain, had been back in England only two weeks •after a long visit to his parents in Invercargill.
Mr Howden. son of Mr and Mrs R. J. Howden, of 28 Chapman street, died outside the home of Mr Richard Butler, son of Britain’s Deputy-Prime Minister, at Halstead, Essex. He was a captain with British United Airways, and had been in England for six years, apart from a period not long ago when he went to Kenya on loan to an airline company there. Mr Howden was educated at the Mataura Island School and Southland Boys’ High School. He later went to the Wanganui Aerial Topdressing School, where he obtained his commercial pilot’s licence.
When he first went to England, Mr Howden attended a college specialising in mathematics. There he passed examinations which qualified him for airliner captaincy.
He first flew for a British airline which went out of business, then he joined B.U.A.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30125, 8 May 1963, Page 17
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