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    Vincent Aspey

    When nine-year-old Vincent Aspey persuaded his mother to buy a violin he had spotted in a second-hand shop she was dubious that he would practice, let alone come to be described as ‘synonymous with orchestral development in New Zealand’.

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NZ’s first regular airmail service begins

1921 NZ’s first regular airmail service begins

The first flight of the Canterbury Aviation Company’s new airmail service took off from Christchurch bound for Ashburton and Timaru. more...

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1921 - key events

External links

  • Mail services (1966 encyclopaedia)
  • Henry Wigram biography (DNZB)
  • Aviation industry (Te Ara)
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