DOMINION FLYING RECORD
CHRISTCHURCH TO AUCKLAND IN EIGHT HOURS, Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. Major G. A. C. Cowper, instructor of the Auckland aero club and Mr Spencer Mason, a member of the* committee, who left Wigram aerodrome at 6.30 this morning, arrived at Mangere aerodrome, Auckland, shortly after five o’clock this evening. The actual time spent in the air on the 550 miles journey was eight hours, stops being made at Blenheim and Hawera. This is a record one-day flight for the Dominion. A message was brought from the Mayor of Christchurch to the Mayor of Auckland.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6886, 16 April 1929, Page 6
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