FLYING MACHINES IN WELLINGTON.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 15 May 1912, Page 5

FLYING MACHINES IN WELLINGTON.

FLIGHTS POSTPONED. WELLINGTON, May 14. A locally-made aeroplane -and an imported Bleriot machine are now on exhibition here. It was understood that flight exhibitions were to have been given by Messrs Walsh and Veshuren, who own the Bleriot, and by Mr Hammond, a New Zealander, who has made some flights in the Old World, but apparently some hitch has arisen, and Mr Hammond has left New Zealand for the time being, and Mr Veshuren, who is a mechanical expert, is returning to America. A syndicate that is interested in the venture may get an aeronaut from America to give exhibitions in the dominion. (Received May 15, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 14. Mr Mason, one of. the victims of the Brooklands aviation fatality, was" a wealthy American and a friend of President Taft and Mr Roosevelt. Both Mason and Fisher sustained broken spines. Fisher was seriously injured last October at Brooklands. ' j