The article below was published in the daily newspaper Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12773, page 5, on May 19, 1909.
(Per United Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, May 18.
A locally invented airship is to he exhibited at the Auckland A. and P. Association's exhibition next week, provided a trial, which is to be made next Friday, is attended with satisfactory results. The inventor is a Mr Barnard, and it is stated that a trial made some time ago was sufficiently gratifying to warrant a patent being taken out.