FLIGHT AT 100

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17950, 30 November 1932, Page 4

FLIGHT AT 100

I-lAWKE’S BAY PIONEER AVIATION HISTORY MADE (Per Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day. Mrs. Marv Ann Adamson, who entered her 100th year on Sunday, made aviation history yesterday by going for half an hour’s flight in one of the Hawke’s Bay and East Coast Aero Club’s machines. She thoroughly enjoyed her experience and, during the flight, spoke jauntily to the pilot, Flying Officer Gerraml, about the sights that lay below her. It is one of die remarkable features of her trip that she was seeing from the air a town which she knew when it contained not a single formed road, street or footpath. She had long expressed her regret that she had never been up in a plane and the trip was offered to her as marking the opening of the carnival being held in Hastings this week. At the end 1 of the flight, she was crowned “Queen of: the Carnival’ by the Mayor (Mr. G. F. Roach, and cheered by a large gathering. Soeeches of congratulations were made by Mr. Roach. Mr. J. S. Barton (Napier Commissioner). Mr. Vigor Brown (Mayor of Napier), and others. Mrs. Adamson, whose 77-year-ohl sou was one of the spectators, arrived in New- Zealand 07 years ago and it is claimed, for her that she is the oldest colonial-born Briton.