BUSINESS GIRLS’ LUNCH CLUB

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6944, 25 June 1929, Page 11

BUSINESS GIRLS’ LUNCH CLUB

MR. J. E. WILSON ADDRESSES MEMBERS. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Business Girls’ Lunch club took place yesterday. There was a splendid gathering. Mrs. A. J. Graham (Mayoress), and Mrs. M. A. Elliott, vice-presidents, were present and visitors welcomed were the Misses Woolf, Royal and Welton.

Mr. John Wilson, of Christchurch, formerly of the R.F.C., spoke briefly on tho wonderful advancement of aviation. In 1903, stated Mr. Wilson, an American made the first experiment in flying. Two years later, successful flights were made by a Frenchman and a Dane, and somo time later, Englishmen flew with some success. Wonderful strides were made during the years of the great war. Aviation had mcney, brains and science available. The Army could never have done so well had it not had tho Flying Corps. The Germans had better machines in the earlier years, but in 1918, Britain achieved mastery of the air and tho nucleus of the success was the splendid type of pilot. They were typical English school boys, who feared nothing. The speaker told of several episodes among flying men, all of which characterised the tremendous fortitude of the pilots. The greatest thrill that could be given pleasure riders in planes who were looking for something sensational, was a tail dive directly down, then a climb upwards. Flying was as safe as motor car driving, and in a very few years to come, machines would reach such a state of advancement that it would be a very common sight to see everybody going for his morning fly. La 95 cases out of IUO, stated the speaker, the cause of an engine stalling was climbing too rapidYeoman proposed a vote of thanks to tho speaker, which was carried by acclamation.