The article below was published in the daily newspaper Thames Star, New Zealand, Volume XLV, Issue 10425, page 2, on May 19, 1909.
A LOCAL INVENTION.
TO BE EXHIBITED.
(Per United Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, May 18.
A locally invented airship is to be exhibited at tho Auckland A. and P. Association's exhibition next week provided the. trial, which is to be made next Friday, is attended with satisfactory results. The inventor is a Mr Barnard, and it is stated that at trial made some time ago was sufficiently gratifying to warrant a patent being taken out.