A PARACHUTE DESCENT
PRESS ASSOCIATION NAPIER, October 23. A balloon ascent took place from the Recreation Ground on Saturday. The aeronaut, Air C. J. Se.bphe, ascended to a height of 2250 feet as registered by the aneroid, and on his descent by parachute landed on top of the chronic ward of the Napier Hospital, smashing four of the roof tiles. \ The only injury he sustained was a slight graze cn on© knee.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7267, 25 October 1910, Page 3
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