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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 68, 22 March 1935, Page 6

Following upon the incident in which a screw picket, which fell from an aeroplane 1000 feet above her, hurtling to earth at terrific speed, just missed Miss Taylor, daughter of Mr E. M. Taylor, of Barrington street, Spreydon, Christchurch, it is learned that two spikes fell from the tool box of a Moth aeroplane belonging to the Canterbury Aero Club. The secretary of the Canterbury Aero Club said that an inquiry would be held by the club into the agair. The accident was duo to a pilot leaving the lid of the tool box in the fuselage Of the machine unlocked, with the result that the whole of the contents fell out when the machine was over Barrington street.

At a well-attended public meeting held at Botorua on Wednesday evening a motion was carried calling upon the Government to investigate the conditions under which relief workers are existing in the town and expressing the opinion that the rates paid insufficient to sustain them while doing hard work. Belief workers present at the meeting unanimously voted to continue the strike which is at present in progress as a protest against the conditions imposed in connection with the work on the aerodrome. The men have demonstrated by marching through the town, but are very orderly and refrained from molesting some of their number in the outer district who continued working. The Unemployment Board refused to give the men work unless they returned to the aerodrome job and this they refuse to do on the present rates.