Unlighted Cycles.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 256, 28 September 1942, Page 4

Unlighted Cycles.

Thirteen cyclists were fined in the Magistrate's Court to-day for riding unlighted cycles at night. The penalties ranged from £1 with 12s costs to 10s and lis costs. Two persons were also fined for not having red reflectors on their machines. The Railway Restrictions.

Among the reasons given to the Railway Department in support of applications "for permission to travel more than 50 miles are telegrams relating to matters of a serious nature. A reader says that, now the strike appears to have been settled telegrams containing news of "Grandmother's death" may be much fewer in number. Fatal Air Crash.

Kenneth Walter Cox, aged 27, was killed yesterday afternoon at Fairview (South Canterbury) when lie took up for the first time a singleseater plane which he purchased in Christchurch a month ago. The machine did not gain much altitude and was flying down a gully above a creek when it crashed. Mr Cox, who was a carpenter by trade and not an experienced pilot, was killed instantly. Call-ups For Service. The latest call-up for military service brings the total number of names gazetted in respect of the AVanganui military district to 16,965, but a small proportion of the men were called up first for Territorial service and then for overseas service at tlio time when separate ballots were held. The Wanganui district (Area No. 6) extends from Wanganui through Feilding and Palmerston North to Levin, and includes the Waimarino and Taihape districts. Building of Minesweepers. The fifth of the minesweepers being built in New Zealand for the Royal New Zealand Navy and the Royal Navy was launched at Wellington on Saturday, being named Awatore by Mrs P. Eraser. The Minister of Supply (Mr Sullivan) said the Awatere was the second steel minesweeper to be launched in' the Dominion. It had been so arranged that the production of six such vessels could proceed simultaneously. All were based on the trawler design and were readily adaptable to peacetime activities.

A Notable Pageant. One of the most notable pageants depicting England's history was shown to thousands of lunch-time spectators on the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral ou Friday, states an Official "Wireless message/ It gave a short dramatic costumed record of English history portrayed through all that is fine in English poetry and music and imbued throughout by the highest conception of patriotism. The music was played by the Brigade of Guards Band and many notable artists took part. The spectacle will be repeated before the raid-damaged cathedrals, beginning at Coventry to-morrow.

Great Strategic Highway. The progress of "Alcan", the great Canadian-Alaskan highway, which will connect with the railway and highway systems of the United States and serve to carry supplies to several important military airfields, has been watched with great interest in Britain, and that. interest has been heightened by the recent statement by Mr Stimson that traffic will start moving over the highway's 1600 miles by December 1 next, several months ahead of schedule. The completion of 1600 miles of road between last March and December 1 will imply progress at an approximate rate of six miles daily.