MONUMENT TO HINKLER.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19054, 19 September 1933, Page 5

MONUMENT TO HINKLER.

ITALY’S TRIBUTE. DISTINGUISHED ASSEMBLAGE. o f\ United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. copyright. ROME, Sept. 17. The monument erected to the memory of the Australian airman, Mr Bert Hinkler, by the 'Urexzo Aero Club on the spot on Mount Pratognano where tie crashed fatally on January 8, was unveiled to-day in the Pass della Vachie, at an altitude of 3200 feet. The memorial was designed by an architect named Pelleri. It takes the form of a seven-foot column. Engraved on it are lie tors (Roman officers) and their fasces (a bundle of rods with an axe in the middle), crossed by a Roman eagle in flight. On the column is inscribed: “To the long-distance flier, Herbert Hinkler, who fell here on 8.1.X1.” The last figures stand for the eleventh year of the Fascist era. A distinguished assemblage at the unveiling included Colonel Stevens, British military attache at Rome, who, with Mr Pearkes, addressed the assembly, expressing th 6 thanks of the British and Australian Governments, also of the late flyer’s family. Two aeroplanes from the Arezzo airport circled overhead during the ceremony. Colonel Stevens and Mr Pearkes visited the Fascist home at Strada where the propeller of Mr Hinkler’s machine Is preserved. They spoke at length to the charcoal burners who first discovered the wrecked machine, four months after the crash.