DOMINION NEWS.
ESCAPEES RECAPTURED. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Feb. G. The two prisoners who escaped from Rangitoto on Monday night were captured on Brown’s Island, at the entrance to this port. RECORD BLASTING OPERATION. WHAN GAR El, Feb. 0. A record blasting operation for New Zealand took place at Wilson's cement works, Portland, yesterday afternoon, when thirteen tons of explosives were successfully fired. One hundred and fifty thousand tons of limes tone were released. Fifteen bores, of two inches each, were put in.
FATAL END TO JOY RIDE. AUCKLAND, Feb. G. Leonard Charles Vincent, who -was killed in the Onehunga collision, resided at Avondale. His father states that he did not know whose car his son was driving. His own ear was at home. The car was owned by Charles Simpson, a land agent, of Auckland. It, was parked in Elliott Street at 8.30 p.m. and disappeared before 10.10 p.m. It was a now car and was not. insured. Lovelock states that Vincent, who was a stranger to him, asked him to go for a Tide to Papakura, and they were on their way there when the accident happened. Lovelock was arrested and charged with drunkenness.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 February 1926, Page 9
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197DOMINION NEWS. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 February 1926, Page 9
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