LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 18 November 1929, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Two motor-cans were removed from the streets of Hamilton without authority on Saturday evening. One was a Chrysler, No. 34585, and the other an Austin Seven, No. 33907.

The Taranaki Education Board announces that- it has sanctioned the closing of the schools on Thursday next to enable tlm pupils to visit the Hawera. Show on People’s Day.

Several substantial sums have been received by the Hamliton East Church of England committee towards the cost of a new church building to be erected on a site already provided for the purpose. The amount in hand totals £177, which includes £SO given by Mr. P. le Quesne to mark his 93rd birthday, £2O from the St. Peters’ Ladies’ Guild, and £l7 from the Claudelands Ladies’ Guild and men’s committee. Application is to be made immediately to the standing committee for authority to proceed with the building.

A drowning fatality occurred at Broad Bay, Dunedin, yesterday, Oliver Hugh Sullivan, aged 19 years, who lived with his parents at Broad Bay, losing his life. The young man and! a companion were .riding -their bicycles along the. Broad Bay wharf, when he lost his balance and fed into th© water. His companion was unable to swim, so went for assistance, but by the time this was secured Sullivan had disappeared. The body was recovered shorty afterwards and artificial respiration was attempted, but without avail.

A collision resulting In severe injuries to Stanley Keith, of Rlawhitiroa, occurred on the Rawhitiroa Road about, 11.30 on Friday morning. Keith was riding a motor-cycle to Eltham, and when taking a- corner, collided head-on with a car driven by Mr W. Smith, manager of the.Kltham Dairy Company. Keith was taken to Eltham and attended to by Dr. Crawford, who ordered his removal to the Hawera Hospital, suffering from a severely injured leg, and minor cuts, and bruises. The cycle was extensively damaged. The bumper of Smith’s car was broken and the right mudguard and headlamp damaged. Fouiteen ’planes from all over New Zealand were present at the Wellington Aero Club’s first pageant, which was ,!.eid at the Rongatai air port on Saturday afternoon before an immense crowd of spectators both insidle and outside the enclosed field. A strong northerly wind l necessitated great care in the ground work of the planes. The eventsincluded a taxying parade of machines, a landing competition, bombing, formation flying. the Wellington aerial derby, a; height estimating oontest, and a display of acrobatics by Captain Burrell in a Defence Department G,lasted- Grebe machine. The flying disved' was of a very high order, but bad' management, particularly in the aerial derby and height estimating, caused considerable dissatisfaction among the spectators, and generally the announcing was veryt poor. The landing com petition was won by Captain M. C. MacGregor, Hamilton Airways, Captain H. Park, in Mr O. Oott rein’s mono coupe, being second. .Oapta.in MacGregor was also the winner of the aerial derby. Mr D. Mill. Auckland. being the runner-up.