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INTEREST IN AVI ATI ON *
[by telegraph.—OWN correspokdent.] PAEEOA, Friday. The No. 2 regimental district rifle meeting will be hold this year at Waihi on November 8 and 9. It is ten years sinc« the last meeting was held and large entries are assured from the Hauraki Regi* ment and Waikato Mounted Rifles. There will be 19 matches in all, including three teams matches for Vickers, Ilotchkiss and Lewis Guns. The Government has granted £75 in prize money. Thirty new subscribers have been added to the Paeroa telephone exchange during the past six months. The now railway refreshment rooms were officially opened at Paeroa to-day. The building is over 100 ft. long and is designed to cope with the greatly increasing traffic following the inauguration of the Auckland-Tauranga express service. A committee consisting of the Mayor; Mr. W. Marshall, and Messrs. Ed warns, and P. Brenan, has been set up to devise ways and means of financing the pur* chase of a landing ground for at Paeroa.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20384, 12 October 1929, Page 8
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