In article ,
Victoria Murray-Orr wrote:

Apologies also on the 'first woman to compete' statement. This
information was supplied to us by a reliable source and without
having European gliding records to hand down here in New Zealand we
were unable to check this.

How about NZ records, from the same airfield, only ten years ago?

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