THE AEROPLANE ACCIDENT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1914, Page 8

THE AEROPLANE ACCIDENT

TO THK EDITOR. Sir, — Personally I would not go across the street to see an aeroplane, let alone waste a shilling on it, but I would give a guinea to shame the snivellers who thought a shilling purchased for them a whole aeroplane and a man's life. The picture theatres have given benefits before, and it would be good business to give one in connection with the picture they are showing, and may the fund reach the thousand for the city'a credit's sake. — I am, etc., HENRY BODLEY AND SONS. [Mr. Bodley forwards a cheque foe £1 Is towards the* fund.}

To-morrow afternoon No. 4 Battalion Wellington Senior Cadets will parade at Newtown Park, at 2.30 o'clock, for field service. The afternoon will be devoted to working out an attack scheme en the hills, behind the park. No. 4 Battalion comprises the V.M.C.A., Technical School, Boy Scout, and Boys' Institute Cadets. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Anti-Opium Association will bo held in the Vivian-street Baptist Church Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The speakers will be the Revs. A. T. Bramsby, J. R. Glasson, W. S. Potter, and Dr. J. G. Hughes. Michael James Nash, a wharf labourer, who was defended by Mr. H. F. O'Leary, pleaded not guilty this afternoon to being an idle and disorderly person. After hearing the evidence of Detective Sergeant Cassells and a number of constables, Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., convicted the accused and sentenced him to one month's imprisonment. As he was leaving the dock the prisoner ' exclaimed : "Do I deserve that, your Worship?" and, receiving no response, added, 'I don't think so!" Notice has been given by Councillor Anderson, of Petone, that he will movo, at the next meeting of the council, as follows -.—"That the gas manager be instructed to report upon the following' matters :-— (1) Whether it would be advantageous to remove the gasworks from Udy-street to the council's property at the Sandhills? (2) the cost of same, together with all incidental works, such as increased trunk mains, etc. ; (3) what savins, if any, would be effected by such removal, and in >v hat (4) what would be the effect upon the cost price per 1000 cubic feet of gas if the proposal were giyea effect Utl'-