AUSTRALIAN NEWS
AIR PILOT’S CRASH.
LICENSE SUSPENDED
(Australian Press Association)
MELBOURNE, Feb. 17
The Minister!’ of Defence announces the suspension of the license of another air pilot who crashed in 111 a - warm district, while carrying two passengers. After the accident it was discovered his ticket did not entitle him to carry 'passengers. Breaches of the. air navigation rules are regarded seriously and complaints were received that aviators indulged in dangerous practices at Parramatta and Liverpool and the "Department hoped that suspensions would act as a deterrent.
CROSSING SMASH
FOUR, KILLED,
MELBOURNE, Feb. 17
A level crossing smash near Werribee resulted in the death of four occupants of a motor car, Mrs Ferguson, Mrs Warner and the latter’s two children, aged five and three. Edward Crowley, the driver of the car, his wife and one child were severely injured. Two other children received minor hurts. The train crashed the car into : a tangled wreckage. James Ferguson, the other occupant of the front scat, seized his five year granddaughter, Jean Warner, and jumped. The train hit the child killing her, and Ferguson escaped with bruises.
CYCLISTS FATALLY INJURED BRISBANE, Feb. 17
John Seckold and Henry Lawrence, riding a motor cycle on the Towius-ville-Charters Towers road, were descending a hill, when they met a sulky in a head on collision. The shaft impaled both men who died later in the hospital.
CHURCH APPOINTMENTS. SYDNEY, Feb. 17
Monsignor McGuire, Vicar-General of Lismore, has been appointed Bishop of the new Roman Catholic Diocese of Townsville, Queensland. Father J. O’Collins, of East Brunswick, Victoria, igoes to the Bishopric, of Geraldton, Western Australia.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1930, Page 5
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