AEROPLANE HITS TREE.
LORD STONEHAVEN'S ESCAPE.
RECEIVES A SEVERE SHAKING.
A. and N.Z. MELBOURNE. Feb. 17. Lord Stonehaven, Governor-General of Australia, was about to return to Melbourne to-day from a visit to the Flinders naval base in an aeroplane, bnt the machine failed to rise and crushed into a tree.
His Excellency and the pilot escaped with severe shakings. They returned to the city by motor-car.
The aeroplane was fligfatly damaged,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19255, 18 February 1926, Page 9
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