AVIATRIX’S ENGAGEMENT
The engagement is announced of Aroha, youngest daughter of Mr Walter Clifford, Fendalton, Christchurch, and Alf Brustad, of Hamar, Norway. Miss Aroha Clifford is known throughout New Zealand as a most competent aviatrix. She was the first woman member of the Canterbury Aero Club to become a pilot. She is a fully qualified ground engineer, having recently taken a course in England at the de Haviland works. Miss "Clifford has done a considerable amount of flying throughout New Zealand, having on more than one occasion piloted her ’plane across Cook Strait to traverse the North Island. Miss Clifford owns her own ’plane, and is the only woman in New Zealand to have a Puss Moth. Miss Clifford is also keenly interested in mountaineering, having achieved some of the most difficult climbs in the Mount Cook regions. Her fiance, Mr Alf Brustad, is well known among alpinists.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 May 1931, Page 7
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148AVIATRIX’S ENGAGEMENT Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 May 1931, Page 7
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