FLIGHT POSTPONED
MEMBERS DISAPPOINTED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) LONDON, Nov. 16. Twenty' jieers anti 80 members of the House of Commons, including four women, who intended to take a flight in the airship RlOl, were deeply disappointed, assembling in pouring rain at Palace Yard, Westminster, for conveyance to Ca.rdington to learn from an Air Ministry official that the weather conditions were too unfavourable to permit the flight. Miss Ellen Wilkinson looked very' crestfallen. She said she had flown in a gale before and there were only a few drops of rain to-day. Mr Jack Hayes* said he was disappointed to miss the chance of getting near heaven. Another member said: “There is one consolation, if we had all gone up and anything had happened there would have been a general election in record time.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 18 November 1929, Page 7
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137FLIGHT POSTPONED Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 18 November 1929, Page 7
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