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BEER IN STREET AUCKLAND, November 6
For a few minutes this morning a city street flowed freely with beer. A brewery lorry encountered difficulty in turning from Wakefield Street into Rutland Street, and a number of cases of beer were thrown to the roadway. It is estimated that 600 bottles were broken, the beer cascading down the gutter. A special City Council squad was employed clearing the roadway of glass.
PILOT KILLED
WELLINGTON, November 4.
When a R.N.Z.A.F. fighter aircraft crashed on a farm at Himatangi, near Foxton, to-day, the pilot, who was on an aerobatic training flight from Ohakea, was killed. . The aircraft dived into the ground near a cowshed.
The victim was Sergeant Stephen Hartley Samuel Webster, whose mother is Mrs T. S. Webster, of Hamilton. Sergeant Webster, who was 20, entered the R.N.Z.A.F. from the A.T.C. in October, 1942, and before his enlistment was an apprentice engineer. He attended the Hamilton Technical College.
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