DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 January 1929, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

STEAMER- ELEANOR BOLLING DELAYED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Jan. 14. Owing to a break in the: cargo lifting gear the Eleanor Bolling was unable 'to leave on Saturday. A new casting is being mad© and it is hbped to despatch the vessel this afternoon for the Bay of Whales. j NAUTICAL INQUIRIES. WELLINGTON; Jan. ML Captains S. Stringer and; A. Oartner wifi act as nautical advisers at the marine inquiry into the recent stranding of the coastal steamer LivercargilL at Ohaua Point, which opens to-mor-row. ' * . . The same assessors will act at- the inquiry into the stranding- of ' the Pare pa on Walker Rock. The later-in-quiry will lie held at Napier on a date i-oi bo fixed. ’

“'AIRMEN’S ROUGH TRIP. NAPIER,, Jan. : 14. ■Capt. George Bolt and-. 'Capt.-, Stedman, of Wellington, arrived at Napier on Saturady in. an Avro-Avian ’plane after a two and a half hour trip from Wellington. On Friday they flew from 'Christchurch to Wellington in. three and three-quarter hours in a howling gale. The weather was so bad that the airmen were afraid that they would not reach Wellington and turned back, but gave it another go. aqd landed safely at Lyall Bay. HONEY BOARD ELECTION. WELLINGTON. Jan. 14. At an election of a member of the .-O Honey Control Board, the candidates w ... were Robert Gibb (Menzie’s Ferry,. Southland). and Pereira! Augustus Hillarv (Waikato). The voting was: Gibb 133, Hillary 31.