FLYING FATALITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 46, 23 February 1929, Page 9

FLYING FATALITY.

1 New Zealander Killed At • Sydney. BURIAL IN WELLINGTON. ; SYDNEY, February 22. , The coffin containing the body of Mi. , H. Appleyard, who was killed when his , 'plane fell at Mascot recently is on the , Marama, which left Sydney to-day for Wellington. It will be interred at Wei- [ lington, his birthplace. Threo flying companions of Mr. Apple- ! yard formed an aerial escort and drop- ■ ped a wreath when the Marama departed. Formerly well knov,-n in advertising circles in Wellington, the late Mr. Appleyard was a native of Petone, where he learned ticket writing and art work before leaving with the Expeditionary Forces. When he returned he became associated with the Goldberg Advertising Agency. 1 Later he went to Sydney, where he established a business of his own. He joined the Sydney Aero Club, and was flying at the Mf.scot Aerodrome on February 10, when a fatal mishap occurred, his 'plane crashing from a height of 200 feet. His skull was fractured, and he died the same evening. His parents reside in Wellington. COAL OUTPUT. BRITAIN'S STEADY INCREASE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 22. The figures for the output of coal in Britain in January Showed an increase of nearly 3.000,000 tons on the previous month. The weekly quantities produced have steadily grown in all tho English mining areas, and the number of miners employed in Britain has now increased to 911,000. The general improvement in British industry is one of the contributory factors to the increased home demand for coal, while the coal export trade has benefited from the fact that a number of the contracts which British customers abroad were forced to conclude with foreign producers at the time of the coal strike in Britain are now expiring, and these customers are reverting to British coal, which is more suitable for their purposes. BRITISH GENERAL. SIR J. MAXWELL DEAD. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 22. General Sir John Maxwell has died at Capetown from pneumonia. He commanded the British forces in Egypt for the first two years of the Great War. and was Commander-in-Chief in Ireland during tho troublous days. General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell was born in 1859, and after leaving Cheltenham College joined the 42nd Highlanders. He served in the Egyptian War of ISS2, on the Nile, ISS4-S5, and commanded a brigade in the Boer War. He was Military Governor of Pretoria, 1900-01. He j was appointed Commander in Egypt. ! 190S-12, and again in 1914-15. He was Com-' mander-in-Chief in Ireland in 1916. and of j the Northern Command, 1916-1919. He was a member of the late Viscount | •Milner's Mission in Egypt in 19-20. He retired in 1922.