LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 30 May 1932, Page 7

LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Inquiries at the Hawera Public Hospital this morning elicited' the information that W. MoOullum, a. member of the Opunake senior football team who was admitted to the institution from Manaia, on Sauirday with a broken leg, was progressing satisfactorily, the injury being attended with no serious complication. Instruction in aviation to pupils of the Hawera Aero Club will be commenced at Dunlop Aerodrome in Hawera to-morrow by- Flying-Officer lan Keith, who arrived from New Plymouth to-day. There are several pupils who have yet to complete their course and Flying-Officer Keith will remain in Hawera until the end of the week.

Mr Oliver Haddon, who was editor of the weekly Maori feature which formerly appeared in the “Hawera Star” under the title “Aobea,” is doing well with his art studies in New Plymouth, where he has been resident for some time. Besides having a large art class under his tuition he has ■received a number of private commissions for black and white and colour work. He is at present engaged on ! a life-sized study of Wiremu Kingi and [ he lias been commissioned by the Maori I members of Parliament to paint a life's ize portrait of the late Sir Maui Pomare foir hanging in Parliament House. ■ (Some of his work will he on view at '* the forthcoming New Zealand Arts ExI hi.bition in Wellington, i Mention of the consistent runs made ! by the motor liner Aorangi in the Syd- ! ney-Auckland-Vaneouver 'passenger seri vice is made in the latest issue of : “The Motor Ship.” a maritime journal published in London. The Aorangi was : built in 1924, and at the time of her j launching was the largest and most | powerful ocean-going motor vessel rn the world. Recently she concluded her forty-third voyage, representing rea’lv 700.000 miles. “The Aorangi lias always arrived ahead of schedule, and I lias never boon delayed by engine ! trouble in leaving port.’’ says the journal “Her best speed over 24 hours has been 18.2 knots. In January she made a record passage of 72 hours £7 minutes from Auckland to Sydney, her average speed being 17.8 b knots.”