FIRM TO USE AIRPLANE
CADBURYS, LIMITED, BUYS MACHINE NECESSARY FOR BUSINESS Prom Our Resident Reporter WELLINGTON, Today. Representatives of the firm of Cadbury, Fry and Hudson, Limited, took over yesterday the first airplane to be used in the Dominion purely for work in connection with a commercial company’s business. The machine is a Gipsy Moth and is at present kept at the Rongotai airdrome. Among those present when the machine was handed over was Mr. F. M. Luckie, deputy-Mayor, Wing-Com-mander Grant-Dalton, Director of Air Services, and Mr. Frank Campbell, president of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Association. Mr. George Sara, director of Messrs. Cadbury, Fry and Hudson, Limited, said there had been some curiosity regarding the acquisition of the machine by the company. It was simply a matter of expediency. The horse and buggy were once the means of transport, and now they had the train and car, but while continuing to make use of other means of transport, the company was determined to utilise the most rapid means when it suited. Mr. Luckie was the first to take a complimentary flight. Other flights were made later.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 970, 13 May 1930, Page 16
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