More Info →"Men Behind the Air Show"

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 08 September 1960 "Some of the original members of the committee who first planned the forthcoming air display to be held in Palmerston North in 1962 are shown together with an executive officer of Civil Aviation Administration who visited Palmerston North last night to attend the third meeting. They are (from left): Messrs J. Death (representing Aviation Industry Association), H. Rolfe (Rolfe Industries), M.R. Jensen (P.R.O.), W.E. Pearse (chairman of the committee), J. Brown (Royal New Zealand Aeronautical Society), F. Young (Wellington Civil Aviation Administration), F. Britten (A.L.A.) and A.M. Hall (town clerk)."