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DESTROYS AEROPLANES NEW ZEALANDER’S INVENTION (Special to Times) AUCKLAND, Tuesday Mr John Pomeroy, of Melbourne, inventor of a new explosive and incendiary bullet, which is claimed to be capable of destroying even the rub-ber-coated petrol tanks of the most, modern military aeroplane, arrived at Auckland by Hie Aorangi yesterday on his way to the United States for a series of trials. Mr Pomeroy was born in Invercargill. but yesterday was the first time he had seen New Zealand for 24 years. For the anti-Zeppelin bullet he invented during the war Mr Pomeroy was awarded the 0.8. E. and received £20.000. In addition, he received £IOOO for a device for exploding submerged mines.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20783, 18 April 1939, Page 8
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