DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 12 February 1941, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS

’PLANE CRASH INQUEST. FOXTON. February 11. At the inquest Into the death of Leading Aircraftsman K. Haase, held before a jury, evidence was given by the pilot, Aircraftsman Holmes, that he had been feeling run down for a fortnight prior to the crash and he reported to the Medical Officer. On the way over from Blenheim to Ohakea, he had experienced air sickness. When the navigator was taking the controls on the return trip, he said he lost consciousness, coming to too late to avoid crashing into the river.

The jury returned a verdict that Haase met his death by drowning, and added a rider that in view of Holmes’s evidence, a more rigid test of pilots’ physical fitness should.be imposed before pilots take the machines into the air.

At the conclusion of the inquest, a Service inquiry w'ag held in camera.

AUCKLAND MUNITION WORKERS. AUCKLAND, February 11. “The response to the call for auxiliary munitions and metal workers in Auckland has far' exceeded that ol any other part of New Zealand, even when allowance is made for larger population, and no difficulty is expected in securing all the - men required,” said Mr A. W. Nisbet, organiser of emergency training, on his arrival from Wellington, to-day. He said tfiat 25 men had already been selected, and a further sitting of the Selection Committee . would be held in the city to-morrow evening. Mr Nisbet said that there wore sufficient lathes in the Dominion to meet all the needs of training for munitions work. A complete trade school might be established in Auckland, for training for footwear operatives .

SALESMAN’S BEQUESTS. DUNEDIN, February 11. Under the will of the cite Frederick Peake Jago, salesman, £5OO was left to the New*, Zealand Alliance for the abolition of the liquor traffic, and £250 to the New Zealand

Salvation Army. The Early Settlers’ Association, the Congregational Church Children’s Rest Home, and the Crippled Children’s Society, and the R.S.A., all of Dunedin, were left £5OO .each. / CEMETERIES TO BE BEAUTIFIED. CHRISTCHURCH, February 11. A. suggestion that all new cemeteries in Christchurch should be arranged so that they would be places of beauty instead of “eyesores in the city,” was made by members of the Christchurch Beautifying Association at a committee meeting last night. The example of the famous Forest Lawn cemetery in Los Angeles was quoted by several members as the ideal type of cemetery that could be arranged in the new area’ of 40 acres set aside for the purpose at Ruru road, Bromley. The Forest Lawn cemetery is a park of undulating lawns, trees flowers, and shrubs, and the only form of memorial used is a small bronze tablet let into the turf, at ground level, so that the lawn .may be cut over it. It was resolved: (1) That the Beautifying Association should make representations to the authorities to see if anything could be done to beautify the Barbadoes street cemetery; and (2) to submit to the proper authorities the idea that the forest Lawn plan should be put into effect in the new cemetery to be termed at Bromley. It was further decided that a deputation should wait upon the Waimairi County Council to advocate the planting of trees in Marshland road, a road which was 80 feet wide, instead of the normal 66, and therefore particularly suited to tree-plant-ing; and also to advocate the planting of trees in certain parts of the North road. Alter a short discussion it was agreed that the Christchurch City Council should be asked for a permit for a plot of flowers to be set round the c'ock tower in Victoria street, and tor the hoarding opposite the clock tower to be removed.