ARTILLERY EXERCISES
Mi-Aircraft Defence tty Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 1. Searchlights and sound-locators were used together to-uight for the first time in New Zealand when a detachment of the Royal New Zealand Artillery carried out exercises in conjunction with an officer of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, who flew a Hawker Tomtit from the Hobsouviile air base. Throe ot the new mobile searchlights were in operation. Their patient quartering of the sky was successful, and the aeroplane was trapped in three beams like h small silver moth unable to resist I he nUini’tion of Innip light.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 143, 2 June 1936, Page 9
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