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Mary Kelleher, of Kombi Nation, and pilot Willie Morton at Bay of Islands Airport with star and poppy banners raising money for the RSA and Starship Hospital. Photo / Supplied
Mary Kelleher, of Kombi Nation, and pilot Willie Morton at Bay of Islands Airport with star and poppy banners raising money for the RSA and Starship Hospital. Photo / Supplied
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Knitted banners
A pair of hand-knitted poppy and star banners have ended their four-week flight around New Zealand with a series of stops in Northland for locals to add their Anzac tributes. Organiser Melanie Salisbury said volunteer pilots had delivered the banners to each destination where they were added to by local crafters. Donations were collected along the way and the completed star would be donated to the Starship Foundation and the poppy to the RSA. Northland stops included Dargaville, Kaitaia, Kerikeri and
Poppy Flight Project lands in Kāpiti
15 Apr, 2021 09:00 PM
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Pilot Dave Crail at Kāpiti Coast Airport with Kāpiti Districts Aero Club s Scott McPake holding the giant poppy and star which is currently travelling New Zealand. Photo / Rosalie Willis
Pilot Dave Crail at Kāpiti Coast Airport with Kāpiti Districts Aero Club s Scott McPake holding the giant poppy and star which is currently travelling New Zealand. Photo / Rosalie Willis
Rosalie is a reporter for Kāpiti News
The Poppy Flight Project flew into Kāpiti on Thursday raising funds and awareness for the RSA, NZ Warbirds Association, and The Starship Foundation.
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The Poppy and Star Flight in Invercargill on April 8. At Invercargill s welcome event were Nazia Amaliya, Jean Wilkie, Dianne Blair, Conal Mulligan and Jonet Moore.
The Poppy & Star Flight – a nationwide fundraising project with 34 volunteer pilots each flying a sector of a four-week circling of the country – hits the Central North Island and Waikato over the weekend . The flight, dreamed up by travel broker Melanie Salisbury, involves a giant poppy and star flown around New Zealand in the lead up to ANZAC Day with the two large pieces of knitted artwork being added to by locals at welcome events in each town.
Keith Pickford will land at Rangitata Island in his Auster MK 5 on Tuesday afternoon and the following day Russell Brodie flies his Tiger Moth from Rangitata to Timaru’s Richard Pearse Airport. At each stopover people have been encouraged to knit poppies as well as stars representing the Starship Foundation, which can be attached to artworks that are being carried around the country. The Temuka Knit and Natter Group has been busy knitting poppies for the cause. “I knitted 14 of them,” member Elaine Costello said. “It’s not difficult. It only took hour an hour for each one.” The poppies will be handed over when Brodie’s Tiger Moth touches down.