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Airmails Memento O’HARA’S HELMET SENT TO N.Z. (Per Press Association.! AUCKLAND, July 13. A small parcel, recalling tragic memories, was included in the mail brought from Sydney by the Wjanganellti. It confained the leather flying helmet once worn by the late, W. M. O'Hara, the well-known New Zealand airman, and torn from his head when his aeroplane crashed and he was killed at Eumugerie, in New South Wales, on May 24. The helmet came into the possession of the police authorities in New South Wales after the tragedy, and it was decided to forward it to relatives of O Tiara.
The Waikato Returned Soldiers’ Association had made a request for the helmet by radio telephone to Sydney, when the news of its existence was made known, but its claims have been waived until the relatives have decided whether they wish to keep the helmet or not. If they do not. it is probable that the helmet will be sent, to Hamilton to be preserved in the Association’s rooms. ’l’he helmet was sent to New Zealand through the Government Trade Commissioner in Sydney, and was addressed to the Auckland Office of the Government Tourist Bureau, -where it is being kept at present.
PLANE MANUFACTURE BY AUSTRALIA.
(Received Julv 13. 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY. July 1.3
Wng-Commander WackeH. Squad-ron-Leader Murphy, and SquadronLeader Harrison, of’ the Australian Air Force, returned to-day by the 'lino- Monterey, after a world tour iiiivest igati'on, prepar'itory to the manufacture of aircraft in Aus ral a under tlfle (Government-sponsored scheme. Commander Wackett dec'areil that Aus'traliia i.s quite mpablc of building nil of the m:'i 'ary aeroplanes that she requires for her defence. Noth tig during theft- v'sO to Britam, America and 'the Continent has impressed h'tti so much a.s the progress made t» Brit'sh mils 'ary .aH'craf t. ‘‘Both tn quality and quantity,’’ he said, “John BoP’s Air Force will be Number One. ’ ’ LONDON, July 11. Lord Sempill returned to Hapworth from Vienna, where he found his auxliary petrol supply was working unsatisfactorily, and it could not bo rectified without returning to London. It would have been unsafe to proceed in such a condition, owing to the fear of the monsoons. Lord Sempill expected that the defect, would speedily bn rectified. The flight may be re-started to-morrow (Sunday).
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Grey River Argus, 14 July 1936, Page 6
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