WELLINGTON’S FIRST AIR PAGEANT
COPING WITH THE CROWD. “You have no idea of the crowd you will get when Wellington holds its first air pageant at Rongotai, said Captain Mercer, instructor to the Canterbu y Aero Club, who yesterday piloted the De Haviland Gipsy Moth, which landed at Wellington’s new airport yesterday. When landing. Captain Mercer. stated that he had had difficulty with thchildren who were rushing about the ground, and he was very grateful for J h ? of the officials present who had kept the crowd back. “But when you are holding the pageant,” he said, ‘ and there are perhaps six 'planes landing together at th.’, conclusion of a race, the people will have to be well roped back —you may have to use barbed wire. . Another point emphasised by the visiting airman was the necessity for a clear sight of the landing field and freedom from obstruction of any kind. The pile of red iron buildings (the bitumen plant) he considers should be removed.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 225, 19 June 1929, Page 11
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