SOUTH ISLAND AIR PAGEANT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 82, 19 March 1934, Page 9

SOUTH ISLAND AIR PAGEANT

Twenty Planet at Hokitika RESULTS OF COMPETITIONS By Telegraph—Press Association. GREYMOUTH, March 18. Three thousand spectators inside the Hokitika aerodrome and nearly as many outside witnessed the South Island air pageant on Saturday in excellent weather. Twenty planes took part. Results: Transport race. —P. McGaffin (Moth), Palmerston North, 1; Adams (Moth), Canterbury, 2. Senior landing competition.—Walker (Moth), Palmerston North, 1; Nanekevill (Spartan), Hokitika, 2. Anderson (Moth), Wellington, 3. Junior landing.—McGaffin 1, Hall (Moth), Wairarapa, 2; Miss Montgomery (Moth), Canterbury, 3. Aerobatics open.—Walker 1, Hall 2. Open landing competition.—Captain Mercer (Canterbury), five yards short, 1; Lieutenant G. Bolt (Wellington), 19 yards short, 2; Squadron-Leader McGregor, 23 yards short, 3. Also competed: Officer Duffy (Dunedin), 25 yards short; Buckeridge (Wairarapa), 27 yards short; Nankevill aud 11, Mathiesou (Hokitika), 40 yards over. The ‘‘New Zealand Herald” Navigation Cup was contested by Nesbitt and Anderson (Wellington) and M<Gaffin. but the award is not yet avail able. Between events the public kept the planes busy with pleasure flights, while stunts by Squadron-Leader McGregor, Lieutenant Bolt and Dudderidge proved exciting. To-day all the visiting planes joined in a picnic flight to Franz Josef Glacier, landing at Waiho.