TRAVEL BY AIR
MANAWATU CRICKETERS
When-the Manawatu cricket repre. sentatives left Rongotai for Nelson by air late yesterday afternoon they were possibly the first team to have done so in the Dominion. Football teams have made use of this form of transport for the purpose of making a rapid crossing between the islands, but as far as the officials of the Manawatu Cricket Association could state, last evening this was the first occasion on which a cricket team had done so.
When the match, against Nelson was first discussed the advantages attaching to air travel were examined, and upon further inquiries the association decided to use that mode of transport in preference to the ferry steamer." A special plane was chartered, and the ordinary plane was also used. Both departed from Rongotai at • 5.15 p.mt, landing at Nelson airport early in the* evening.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 14
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143TRAVEL BY AIR Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 14
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