Mrs Hewlett, Air Crusader
LEAVES ON RETURN TO NEW ZEALAND
Received Thursday, 10.40 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 2.
Wearing a battered leather jacket and with a kit strapped to her shoulders, and looking every inch a tradesman, the septuagenarian aviatrix, Mrs. Hewlett, boarded tho Dutch stir liner at Croydon. She said her journey was a crusade. If the pilot, wore ill she could take the controls. She declares that New Zealand is her adopted country, and she intends throwing all her enthusiasm into tho task of convincing Australia and New Zealand that they cannot afford longer to negloft to forge air links with the remainder of the world.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6645, 4 September 1931, Page 6
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