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then on June 2d started flying in New Zealand at Hawke's Bay. On June 4th he had another smashup, damaging wings and propeller. Stone remained in New Zealand until September, when he returned to Melbourne, Australia for the balance of the season at Ascot Race Track.
   Store remained in Australia flying exhibitions through 1914, at which time the game lost interest due to the approach of World War I. As a result Stone gave up flying and became associated with the Ford Motor Company of Australia at Sidney, where he stayed through 1915-1916.
   Toward the end of 1916 he returned to the United States and immediately became an inspector or planes for the U. S. Army Signal Corps, serving at College Park, Maryland, Springfield, Massachusetts and Garden City, Long Island, New York. After the war he continued inspection work with the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, and was there until into 1923. At that time the Air Service sent him to the Douglas Aircraft plant at Santa Monica, California as Chief Inspector of the "Round-the-World" planes being built. Stone liked it there and remained at the Douglass plant on Air Force Inspection until 1935, when he was transferred to North American Aviation, Inc. at Inglewood, California. There, during the early part of World War II he was Chief in Charge of Inspection for the entire military aircraft production output for North American.