AVIATION AWARD
MEMORIAL TO LOST SON Advice has been received by the president of the New Zealand Aero Club, Mr. G. M. Spence, that Mr. James Armstrong, father of the late Mr. Hamish Armstrong, who was lost while flying in fog among the Ruahine Kanges, has donated £IOO to be invested as a fund to be known as the Hamish Armstrong Memorial Award tor the purpose of providing two hours' free flying for a pilot to be selected each year by the Wellington, Wairarapa, and Havvke's Bay clubs in rotation. Members of the executive of the club have expressed to Mr. Armstrong their warm appreciation of the donation. Mr. Armstrong has asked the New Zealand Aero Club to record also his deep thankß for the unsparing efforts which were made by officers and members of the several district aero clubs which took part in the unavailing search for his son.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22240, 15 October 1935, Page 11
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