Canterbury Airwomen Top List

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32312, 2 June 1970, Page 2

Canterbury Airwomen Top List

Miss Pam Lock of, Glandovey/ Road, who brought back three trophies last evening from the New Zealand Airwomen’s Association rally at New Plymouth, has iron events in each of the five rallies she has entered.

This year her prizes included the Fitton Rose Bowl, the most comprehensive event of the contest and the most keenly sought. Other competitors included five commercial pilots, four of whom had instructor rating. Miss Lock, who has been flying for six years, won a Powder Puff Scholarship which enabled her to have free instruction until she passed her private pilot’s licence. Aged 24, she is a senior assistant in the sciences library at the University of Canterbury. Miss Lock was elected vicepresident at the association’s annual meeting, also held during the week-end. The association had been formed to foster interest in aviation among women, she said. Its rallies brought together pilots, the “gliding girls” and skydivers from all parts of New Zealand.

First Trophies English-born Ann Hasney, of Bryndwr, brought back two trophies after only one year’s flying. They were her first. Miss Hasney is a secretary in the zoology department at the University of Canterbury. After only eight months intermittent flying, 22-year-old Margaret Philip won the student-pilot . trophy at New Plymouth. She is a student community nurse at Burwood Hospital. These three young airwomen, all members of the Canterbury Aero Club, brought back six of the eight flying trophies from the rally. Others Placed Three other members of; the club were placed in events. Mrs Margaret Quin, the former Miss Margaret Ellis, of Christchurch, was placed second in the Cessna Cup and third in the Vieta Trophy, won by Miss Lock. Now married to a Tapanui farmer with an 11-montb-old son, Mrs Quin flew in the rally as a member of the Southern Districts Aero Club. “But I am still a member of the Canterbury dub,” she said. Miss Tish Glasson, a matlie-

matics teacher at Methven High School, was third in the winter navigation event won by Miss Hasney. She has been a member of the Canterbury club for four year's. A registered nurse on the staff at the Christchurch Women’s Hospital, Miss Jennifer Gillespie, pf Avonside. was placed second in the Southland Parachute Award. In the photograph from left are Misses Philip, Lock and Hasney at the Canterbury Aero Club last evening.