LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Grey River Argus, 4 May 1922, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

L. R. Voigt, one of the Labour delegate to the Australian Economic Conference, was some years urge, one of the 'w'oirld’s best long-dista>uee runners. He von the live miles world s championship for Great Britain at the Olympic games in 1908, the four miles British championship in 1908-9, the one mile British championship is 1910, ami the. one m:le A ctorian championshiv in 1912. Although lie has »>ot been on the track for some lime, it is quite 1 likely that he may yer nave a. crack at some of our local long distance. champions. V iogt is a. native of Manchester, is about 39 years old, and of small but wiry build. A mastel’r engineer he bus lor - some time ter engine..' he has his ownn workshops in England, but has for some yc*irs been closely identified with the Labour Movement. At the' present tune he is director of the Labour Research and ■lnformation Bureau at the Sydney 1 Trades Hall. ■ A French army pensioner at Grenoble has received an envelope containing seven official documents accompanied by a. letter inviting him to call at the office of the Departmental Treasure- to receive the sum of one centime <l-29th penny). Aceord’ng to stories toid by the natives of Hawaii to-day, it learned I from Honolulu, so writes a contributor to the “.Motor" (.South Africa), that all the tin ills of Hying were enjoyed Iby H'iw:wi.'ins eentnr'es ago. Their I ancestors secured their aerial cxcite- ’ ment by jumping off cliffs into the sea in home-made aeroplanes. They made a regular game of ’.t, known as “lele. pali." or ■■jumping from the cliff." It was played up to, 10 years lago by the natives who lived near groves of loulu palms, near high cliffs overlooking the sea. The game was played with large conttrivances but of light, but stout, sticks and interwoven with loulu palm leaves. Several of these affairs were made ready ; the Hawaiian, “aviators” took their scats and were pushed off towering cliffs. The adventuier who remained longest in tho air was the winner. Frequently the aeroplane, owing to I the carelessness or over excitement ol | its ‘‘pilot," executed a- nose-dive after the fashion of the twentieth eenitury maelrne. The only damage was j the. loss of the game. Old Hawaiians I say that their flying men irere exceptionally skilful. Tim- only means they had of guiding their crude ap-pEam-es was io shift their v.mgst- to I maintain balance as they zig-zagged down towards the sea.. A fleet of out. rigger canoes was anchored off-shore to pick up the sportsmen and retrieve the “planes.” Exceptionally (larinjx Hawaiians, it is said, often hopped off thousand-foot cliffs on the ma'nmml.