A NEW ZEALAND AVIATOR.
MR. HAMMOND IN SYDNEY. By Telegraph—Press Association—CopyriEht (Rec. April - ?, 10' p.m.) Sydney, April 7. Mr. Joseph Hammond, the aviator, who has been giving exhibition flights with a Bristol aeroplane in tho different State capitals, has arrived. He was born in Feilding, Now Zealand, and has just spent fivo years in America and Europe'.' '
Mr. Hammond is described as an aviator of the most finished style, and is never content to' bo near the ground. ' He made what" must be a record for the French schools of aviation by qualifying for his pilot's certificate in a period of ten days, Ho was born in Feilding, and educated at Wellington, and then went sheep-farming in Australia. From this occupation he turned to gold-digging in Klondiko and trapping in Alaska. For some six months after this he toured in tho United States as a cowboy in the famous show of Buffalo Bill. • Coming to Europe, he .travelled in most of its countries, and became fascinated by tho new art of aviation, and-after gaining much experience by-ivisiting the. best-known aerodromes in France, lie' entered the school at Rheims, and obtained his certificate ivith. marvellous rapidity.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1097, 8 April 1911, Page 5
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195A NEW ZEALAND AVIATOR. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1097, 8 April 1911, Page 5
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