TO COURT IN TROUSERS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 9

TO COURT IN TROUSERS

GIRL REPROVED BY CiLERIv

LONDON, Aug. 20,

A young woman appeared at Bradford City Court- to-day wearing flannel trousers, a light overcoat, and collar and tie.

She was Mary Senior, of Tennyson place,, and' she was .summoned for driving a motor vehicle in Broadway without having a third-party risk insurance policy. The magistrate’s clerk told her that she was not properly dressed to appear in a court of justice. Following a short consultation between the clerk and the magistrates the chairman of the Bench, Mr. George Wilkinson, asked Senior: “Do you ever wear a dress?” “No,” was the answer. “I 'ride a motor-cycle and always wear trousers.

Senior, who pleaded guilty, was fined £1 and her license was suspended for two years.

unsubsidised services, too, have since proved that this was correct.

JUBILEE FLIGHT

The Jubilee Air Mail flight, in 1935, was planned as a final demonstration to endeavour to bring about some action in support of the inauguration of the service.

After all the previous Tasman crossings, it was unfortunate that on this occasion the port propeller of the Southern Cross should have been broken by a piece of the centre engine exhaust manifold, "which flow back and, cut the end off a blade; it was fortunate, however. that the Soul hern Gross and all in it were not drowned.

Following Sir ' Charles Kingsford Smith’s disappearance, a further proposal was submitted to the authorities for the operation of a service with a subsidy sufficient to make it a commercial possibility, using large-flying boats of proved suitability.

In addition, offers were made to cooperate with the Government in any way possible to ensure the inauguration ,of the service along proper lines.

As a result of a' year’s activity by the Trans-Tasman Company, Captain Taylor decided that no further endeavour to commence the service could be made until the Governments had agreed upon co-operative support.

ft is argued that the most efficient service can only lie achieved by utilising, in selection of route, aircraft, and other preliminary considerations, and in f.lio operation of the service itself, the experience of those with first-handi local knowledge of the Tasman route. The Sydney-Auckland non-stop route can be covered in daylight.

The non-stop factor is important, because there can be no question of staying overnight at Lord Ilowe Island in view of the speeding-up of the shipping services to a less than three days’ schedule. The air service should bo run to nil eight-hour schedule, for which modern suitable aircraft are available.

At present, local airmen, with actual flying experience on the proposed Tasman run, are marking time, waiting the chance to apply the experience they have gained.