SCHNEIDER TEAM.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 66, 19 March 1931, Page 7

SCHNEIDER TEAM.

BRITAIN'S DEFENDERS. LONDON, March 18. The British team for the Schneider Cup race will consist of the following:— Squad roll-Leader A. H. Orlebar, commander; Flight-Lieutenants G. Stainforth, F. M. Long, J. M. Bootman, J. R. Atldams and Flying-Officer H. J. Leech.

IMPRESSIVE DISPLAY. BRITAIN'S WONDER 'PLANE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 18. Several airmen from Argentina to-day witnessed a remarkable display near London by Captain G. S. Staniland, a well-known British pilot, in a-new Fairey Firefly machine, which probably is the fastest fighting aeroplane in the world. Captain Staniland swooped almost to the 'ground at. a speed of 380 miles an hour, then, turning the machine sharply, he climbed to an altitude of 20,000 ft in ten minutes. Captain C'astex, of Argentina, also tested the machine, and although it was a strange craft to him, he, too, looped the loop and stunted with it after a few minutes. The Firefly lias a 000 h.p. Rolls.Roycc engine.

MATE IN IRONS,

TROUBLE ON NORWEGIAN SHIP. SYDNEY, March IS. ' The second mate uf the Norwegian steamer. June, Simile, alleges that for a small ofFenco at Papeete he was placed in irons for '24 hours and imprisoned in a cabin for <*ix weeks until the ship arrived at Newcastle,to-day. The ViceConsul for Norway is conducting an inquiry into the matter. Sumle says lie took a bottle of wine from a bag near the captain s cabin. Later, when the captain arrived on board, he ordered the entire crew into the hunker hatch anil herded them at the point of a revolver. Subsequently Sunde was locked in a cabin with rusty handcuffs on his wrists. Captain Hannevig's version of the a flair is that when he arrived 011 board he found there had been almost a riot. The crew had stolen a quantity of liquor and were drunk. He held them up with a revolver and armed all 1 le officers with batons. Sunde had threatened him with his fists.

Few vessels trading in tlie Pacific have come so much into public notice duiing the past two years and in the same way as the June. Under charter to the British Phosphate Commissioners, she been engaged in carrying phosphate from Nauru. Ocean and Makatea Islands to New Zealand an I Australian ports, and lias twice discharged at Auckland Both times she was here the crew refused duty, and held her up. On one occasion an officer practically ran amok' aboard the ship, and had to be "knocked out" by a constable before lie was secured. The last time the June was in New Zealand waters she discharged at Lyttelton and Dunedin. At the former port half the crew deserted, but the master took her to Dunedin. There a magistrate refused to give him a warrant for the arrest- of the deserters, and she returned to Lyttelton. The men gave as the reason for deserting that the food was bad, and they rejoined the ship when the - * were promised that this would be remedied.