FLYING FATHER CHRISTMAS
VISIT TO ALTON SCHOOL. Father Christmas has evidently dispensed with his sleigh and reindeer and to keep up with the times'now does his annual visiting by aeroplane. He made his first call yesterday when he suddenly appeared over Alton and alighted most auspiciously in an adjacent paddock to that in which the Alton children were holding their breaking-up ceremony.
Descending from the plan# clad in his latest suit of crimson and white and with a bulky bag he immediately drew around him an excited and cheering host of young folk eager to have a close .view of this remarkable hero. Of course he had scores of presents to distribute, the reports of each child’s behaviour during the year presumably being favourable.
Flying-officer lan Keith flow the plane. H-> was given a presentation box of cigarettes. He later took up passengers.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1930, Page 7
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