OPTICAL ILLUSION?
■PLANE IN DISTRESS: INQUIRIES PROVE, FRUITLESS (By Telegraph—Press Association.) 'GISBORNE, Aug. 27. Investigations efi the report from Tolga Bay' concerning an alleged aeroplane in difficulties failed to substantiate the report. The police and settlers scoured the country for some miles without result and enquiries by aviation interests reveal no ’plane posted as missing. It is presumed that the. informant i.vas a victim of an optical illusion, enhanced by exhaust, explosions of a motor lorry'.
A TRIP FROM AKITIO DANNEVIRKE, Aug. 27. , With reference to the unidentified ’plane reported as passing over Tolaga Bay yesterday, apparently in distress, a ’plane left Akitio- on ’Sunday piloted by Mr ITamish Armstrong, who was accompanied' by Mr D. Paviour Smith aig passenger, for Tokomaru Bay". This ’plane, however, did not meet with a mishap yesterday' as Mr Armstrong reported to Dannevirke at 6 p.m. yesterday that, he was returning to Dannevirke to-day'.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 27 August 1930, Page 9
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150OPTICAL ILLUSION? Hawera Star, Volume L, 27 August 1930, Page 9
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