The article below was published in the daily newspaper West Coast Times, New Zealand, Volume 24, page 4, May 24, 1909.
AUCKLAND, May 22. -- A locally invented airship is to be exhibited at the A. and P. Association's exhibition next week, provided that the trial, which is to be made next Friday, is attended with satisfactory results. The inventor is Mr Barnard, and it is stated that the trial made some time ago was sufficiently gratifying to warrant a patent being taken out.