AERIAL FLIGHT BY MR. SCOTLAND
(BT TEI EORAPH.— rRCSS ASSOCIATION.) TIMARU, This. Day. Mr. Scotland left Timaru shortly after 8 o'clock on a flight to Christchurch. In the preliminary one of the planes went wrong, and he landed on Quarry Hill, Fairview-road, to adjust it, and gob away beautifully. He sailed over Timaru, I then in a line due north at a height of 400 ft to 500 ft. The weather was fine, with no wind. The flight was watched by a great many people. TOO COLD TO FLY. AVIATOR LANFs AT ORARI. TIMARU, This Day? Word from Orari, twenty miles away, states that Scotland landed there at 9 o'clock. The air being very cold, he became numbed, and thought it inadvisable to continue tho flight. It is understood a-t Orari that the aviator is short of certain oil required for the machine, but may resume the journey about 2 o'clock.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 55, 6 March 1914, Page 8
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