20-Year-Old Pilot Missing Since Last Thursday

Waikato Independent, Volume XLV, Issue 6233, 2 May 1949, Page 4

20-Year-Old Pilot Missing Since Last Thursday

In spite of a wide soach. no trace has been found of'the Tiger Moth aircraft ZK—AIS piloted by Mr James Innes Taylor, of Cambridge, which fent missing from Matigere on hursday afternoon. The missing plane, was last seen definitely when* it look off from Mangere at about 4.40 p.m. on Thursday, and flew off in a south-westerly direction. The extensive search over the week-end was mainly' in a southerly direction, and today the area to the north will be covered.

Mr Taylor is a member of the wellknown Cambridge family,.being the son of Mr and Wie late Mrs Innes Taylor, of 30 Queen Street. He is a grand-son oj* the late Mr James Taylor, of "Bardowie". His sisters are Mrs St J. Wells, of Mannrewa and Mrs J. R. Ranstead, of Cambridge. He was born at Pukeroro, and educat; ed at the Cambridge District High School. On gaining his matriculation, he attended the Auckland University College, but for health reasons he was forced to give up his studies. He spent the past three months in Cambridge and during that time.he ledi'iit to fly at Rukuhia, gaining his "A" license recently. For the past two weeks, Mr Taylor had been working at Penrose, coming to Cambridge each week-end for the meets of the Waikato Hunt. He is a very keen horseman.