One of the 12 Blackburn Baffin aeroplanes to be commissioned in the recently-formed Cook Strait Squadron was assembled and tested on Tuesday nl the Hobsonville Air Base. The test was carried out by Flight-Lieutenant A. G. Lester, who said later that he was satisfied the machine was quite suitable for the work required of it.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19550, 4 February 1938, Page 8
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