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“This is Without Doubt the Very Greatest Moment of My Life” – Jean Batten’s Record-Breaking Flight

October 16, 2016November 9, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1930s, 1YA, acetate discs, Auckland, Auckland Aero Club, Australia, Britain, Burma, Ellen Melville, Ernest Davis, Frederick Jones, Java, Jean Batten, Kaipara, Mokau, National Council of Women, New Plymouth, NZBS, radio, Sarah Johnston, Siam, South America, Sydney

– By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Eighty years ago today New Zealander

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78 years ago today… Jean Batten Lands in Auckland

October 16, 2014February 1, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 4 Comments 1930s, aviation, Ellen Pullar, Jean Batten, Newsreels

At 5.50pm on the 16th of October 1936, Rotorua-born aviator Jean Batten landed in Auckland – she’d successfully completed the first