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Dymo label below original photo in album as caption reads – KINGSFORD SMITH SOUTHERN CROSS 1928.

Kingsford-Smith’s “Southern Cross” aircraft, 1928

6-7 unidentified men in foreground. Presumed to be at the Levin Airstrip in Tararua Road.

See – Acc# 2004.043.0006 a programme of events for Wednesday, March 1st (1928 or 1932 ?) that includes - 11 am Arrival of “Southern Cross” and welcome. 11.30 am Passenger flights in the world’s most famous aeroplane, “The Southern Cross”. 1.30 pm Aviation display arranged by the Wellington Aero Club. Later that evening at the Levin Regent Theatre, officials of the Levin Aero Club will present Air Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith to the audience during the performance of “Emma”. He did not appear. Rumour says he went to P.N. ‘woman hunting’.

Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.”

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