People Who Were On Board The Missing Airliner

Wanganui Chronicle, 28 October 1948, Page 6

People Who Were On Board The Missing Airliner

The pilot of the Kaka, Commander G. M. Hare, or 471 Manukdu Road Epsom, is widely known in civil avia-

tion in New Zealand- He learned to fly with the Canterbury Aero Club before the war and was also one of the first, members of the Marlborough Aero Ciub. He was a member of tne Territorial Air Force and joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force at the outbreak of war. He served mainly with No. 42 Squadron, which was a communications squadron stationed . at Rongolai. On leaving the Air , Force after the war, Commander , Hare joined Union Airways and flew on the Cook Strait route. Later he was on the Dunedin-Invercargill route for National Airways and more recently on the North Auckland-Roto-rua-Hamilton route. Commander Hare, who was educated at the Marlborough High School, was a farmer before the war with his late father, who owned the Glenmark Estate in North Canterbury. His mother lives at Rangiora. Second Officer B. C. Russel, whose family home is in Masterton, has been with the National Airways Corporation for nine months. He served with the Royal Air Force duriijg the war and took part in Europea’ll operations. Mr. W. J. Bell was born in England 39 years ago and came to New Zealand as a youth- He was apprenticed to the bakery trade in Napier until he moved to Hamilton some years ago. He was employed on the bakehouse staff of the Waikato Hospital and some months ago took up a home cookery business in Hamilton. He served in the home forces during the war. Mr. Bell had been spending a holiday in Hastings after an illness. He is a married man with eight children, the eldest of whom is 17. Mr. F. J. Follas, aged about 48, is a taxi proprietor and is a member of Wellington Co-operative Taxis, Ltd. He went to Wellington from Auckland several years ago and was on his way to visit his wife, who is in Rotorua. Mr. Follas served with the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force and was a prisoner of war in Germany for three years. Mr. and Mrs- T. Collinge were on their way to spend a holiday with a sister of Mrs. Cohinge at Te Awamutu. Mr. Collinge until 15 months ago was on the staff of British Overseas Airways Corporation in Cairo. He returned to New Zealand in July. 1947, and is now a member of the National Airways Corporation engineering ground staff at Palmerston North. Mrs. Collinge is the daughter of Mr. F. C. Daniell, of Masterton. . Mr. R. A. Phyn is the second son of Mr. and Mrs- R. G. Phyn, of Riponui. He is a member of the bookkeeping staff of the National Airways j Corporation at Wellington, being on i temporary loan from the Public Trust ' Office. He was travelling to Hamil-1 ton to visit his sister. Mr. Phyn was educated at the Riponui school and Whangarei High School, and was employed at the Public Trust Office at Whangarei for three years before being transferred to Palmerston North. He went to National Airways in Wellington last March. His father is a member of the Whangarei County Council.

Mr. M. S. Heywood is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Heywood, of 16 Grey Street, Rotorua- He is a clerk employed by the National Airways Corporation in Wellington, and was travelling to Rotorua to visit his parents.

Mr. R. W. Munford is an engineer employed by Reyrolle and Co.. Ltd., a large firm of English electrical engineers. He came to New Zealand some months ago to relieve the firm’s New Zealand manager while the latter made a trip to England. Mr. Munford intended to return to England shortly by air, via America. Mrs. C. T. Pease, of 53 Sheldon Street, Woolston, who is about 50, was making her first trip by air to Hamilton to see her daughter, who is ill, says a Press Association message from Christchurch. She did not know until Friday that she could make the trip, as all seats on the aircraft had been booked, but a cancellation enabled her to go.