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This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 19 November 1958: "Nothing is left to chance when an R.N.Z.A.F. flight is arranged. Here L.A.C. W. Meldrum, a woman signaller on the staff at Ohakea, is seen at the radio control panel just before the Comet II took off on its North Island demonstration flight yesterday."

Identification

Object type
Image
Identifier
2017-20
Archive
Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Date
November 19, 1958
Digitisation ID
2017N_2017-20_014995
Format
B&W negative

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Taxonomy

Tags
1950s,
airforce,
black and white,
manawatu evening standard,
ohakea,
royal new zealand air force,
woman,
working,
Community Tags
air force,
aircraft,
comet,
ohakea,

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