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NORTH ISLAND TOUR SPECIAL PRECAUTIONS (I’avlini'miitai v Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Special precautions to prevent ac-.i dents among the crowds which will witness the arrival of the Auckland Aero Club planes which are to Hy to various points in the North Island next month are to bo observed by order of the Minister of Defence, the lion. T. M. Wilford. The lligbts and landings are to be made for the purpose of encouraging the provision of landing grounds at centres where none exist to-day. Two machines are to leave Auckland on October 2 and tho towns to he visited are Paeroa, To A'roha, Cambridge, Te Awamtutt. Nee Plymouth, I la, went, Wanganui, Welling ton, Hastings, and Gisborne. It has been arranged that school children shall have facilities to witness the landing o tho planes, but special precautions will be taken. No spectators will be allowed mi the ' actual landing grounds, arid it possible the landing areas must be roped off.
Mr. Wilford. in a letter to the secretary of the Auckland Aero Club insisted on precautions being taken, and the secretary replied to-day that arrangements were being made in accordance with the Minister’s wishes.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17062, 21 September 1929, Page 5
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