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    Yvette Williams

    The sports writer Peter Heidenstrom rated Yvette Williams as his 'New Zealand Athlete of the Century'. There is no doubt that she was one of our greatest-ever athletes - and probably the most versatile. 

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First fatalities on a scheduled air service in NZ

1931 First fatalities on a scheduled air service in NZ

All three people on board a Dominion Airline Desoutter were killed in a crash near Wairoa. The airline had helped maintain contact between the areas ravaged by the recent Hawke's Bay earthquake and the rest of New Zealand. more...

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  • Air Transport (1966 encyclopaedia)
  • Accidents and the development of aviation (Te Ara)
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