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    Godfrey Bowen

    Bowen helped establish sheep shearing as a legitimate sport and a form of entertainment. He was one of the inaugural inductees into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.

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First official airmail flight to San Francisco

1938 First official airmail flight to San Francisco

The first official New Zealand airmail to the United States was carried from Auckland to San Francisco on Pan American Airways' Samoan Clipper. This Sikorsky S-42B flying boat was piloted by Captain Ed Musick. more...

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Pan Am's Samoan Clipper in Auckland

External links

  • Aviation: International destinations (Te Ara)
  • Mail Services (1966 encyclopaedia)
  • First Pan Am airmail (NZ stamp images)
  • First and Last (Time magazine)
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