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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20522, 25 September 1928, Page 7

Handicapped by lack of money and working in their spare time only, two young Aucklanders have built a light aeroplane similar in design to the Southern Cross. The young men are brothers —Ernest and Arthur Everson, of Herne Bay. The plane is built entirely of New Zealand material, with the exception of the engine, which is out of a motor cycle. They told a Sun reporter that all the woodwork is of New Zealand kauri, and it is built on the Fokker design with the wing over the top and all the weight underneath. The monoplane weighs 3001 b and is considered to be about as light as any machine yet turned out. The plans, which were drawn up by the elder brother Ernest, who is a draughtsman in the employ of an Auckland architect, were submitted to an ex-Air Force officer, who was perfectly satisfied that the machine was of an excellent type. The young men state that the machine cost no more to build than an expensive motor bicycle, and they could turn out similar planes for about £2O0 —about quarter of the price of a Moth. The machine is built entirely on the safety principle. The work has so far taken five months, but the engine has yet to be put in. A young man in Manchester has formed the habit of attending all the executions ho can and praying for the persons hanged. When a market salesman was hanged at the local gaol recently, the young man placed his watch on the footpath a minute before the bell tolled, and knelt down beside it as the law took its grim course.