VETERAN AIRWOMAN
Loyalty to New Zealand MRS. HEWLETT SETS OFF (Rec. September 3, 11 p.m.) London, September 8. Wearing a battered leather jacket, with a kit strapped to her shoulders, and looking every inch a tradesman seputagenarlan, Airs. H. B. Hewlett boarded a Dutch air liner at Croydon. She said that her journey was a crusade. If the pilot took ill she could take the controls. She declares that New Zealand Is her adopted country, and she intends throwing all her enthusiasm into the task of convincing Australia and New Zealand that they cannot afford longer to neg tto forge air links with the remainder of the world. •
Mrs. Hewlett, who is planning to fl.v to Batavia, married the. late Maurice Hewlett, English novelist, in 1888. The was the daughter of an English clergyman. After her husband’s death she lived' for some time in Auckland, and was there as recently as 1928. Her son is Group Captain F. B. T. Hewlett, D. 5.0., 0.8. E.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 291, 4 September 1931, Page 9
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