’PLANE WRECKED
MISHAP ON CANTERBUR Y FARM. PASSENGER SUFFERS SCALP WOUND. Or '’Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 12. A Spartan aeroplane owned by New Zealand Aiiways was wrecked on a farm at Stave]y this afternoon but tlie pilot, John Kilian, was uninjured. Colin L. Austin, gaed 26, owner of the farm, vho was a passenger in the aeroplane, suffered a scalp wound. The machine was totally wrecked and was taken in a lorry to Springburn and from there it will be sent by rail to Timaru. The pilot took off twice without a. passenger to test the field. There was a gusty north-wester.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 13092, 13 February 1937, Page 4
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