The case of Richard Pearse is by far the weakest of all cases about which we discussed here. I do not find any document, article in a newspaper, application for a patent, etc., regarding Pearse's planes, that can be dated before July 1906.
He was actually published in the "Waitohi Times" in 1902 or 1903 with one of his early flights.
His best early flight (I posted this earlier but it was ignored) was on the 11th of May 1903. He took off on level ground with the aeroplane under its own power, turned left then flew out of ground effect over the bed of the Opihi River, flew over the head of a local by the name of Arthur Tozer, then perhaps a slight right turn to follow the river bed (it was mostly dry) and landed between 900 to 1,000 metres later.
Vastly better and in more control of any of the first Wright flights later that year.