MASTEETON AERO CLUB
ONLY MACHINE DAMAGED
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")
MASTEETON, This Day.
Further misfortune has overtaken the Wairarapa Aero Club. With one machine disabled as the result of a forced landing at Orongorongo just before Christmas, the club has since had the use of only its second machine, and on Friday this machine was also dam; aged as the result of a mishap at the Hood Aerodrome, and will be out of commission for about a fortnight. , Piloted by Miss M. Barrer, a club trainee, the aeroplane made a heavy landing from a height of about forty feet, the lower wings and the centre section being badly damaged. Miss Barrer, who is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Barrer, of Mastcrton, was flying solo, and had previously made two fair landings. She was not injured. '
The club's machines have experienced a succession, of mishaps during the past year or so, and ths club has now no machine available '
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 66, 20 March 1933, Page 8
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