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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1972Vol. 43, No. 10

She's Really Flying High-At 95!

p. 100 · Read in the full issue

For a 95-year-old London grand mother, a flight to New Zealand was just another jaunt to see her family.

“There’s nothing to get excited about,” Mrs Sarah Webb told re porters at Auckland as she landed lively and bright after the 35-hour trip. .

“So don’t you put anything m the newspapers,” she warned. She told the captain that after she had got over the excitement of being reunited with her family she intended to get

a place of her own, “so as not to be a burden to the family”.

Mrs Webb, who lived in Fores; Gate, London, added that she looke: forward to some sightseeing in Nev Zealand.

So it’s never too late to start flymr —particularly if it’s by BOAC.

VC 10s or 7475, which we think an the best two aeroplanes in the sky Mrs Webb confirmed this. She has only one word for the flight) “luvverly”.