IN TOWN AND OUT

Southland Times, Issue 22296, 11 April 1934, Page 6

IN TOWN AND OUT

NEWS OF THE DAY Boy Found Shot. The police have been advised that Gilbert Edward James Butler, a schoolboy residing with his parents at Balfour, was found dead yesterday with a pea-rifle and a discharged cartridge lying beside the body. The circumstances pointed to accidental death. The Shooting Season. This year there will be a two months shooting season, beginning on May 1. Grey duck, spoonbill duck and black swan may be shot for the full season and paradise duck from May Ito 7, both days inclusive. The daily bag limit is 15, including paradise duck, of which not more than five may be shot in any one day. Pukeko may not be shot. * * Down The Waiau. Writing in the Dunedin Evening Star “D.H.H.” has the following interesting reference to a trip down the Waiau: “I remember in the early ’nineties meeting Messrs H. Bauchop, afterwards colonel (killed at Gallipoli), and F. W, Platts, later Commissioner at Rarotonga and now a Magistrate in the North Island, on a canoeing trip at the head of Lake Wakatipu. They afterwards went across to Te Anau and canoed down to the mouth of the Waiau without any casualty.” » * * • Film Industry Commission. In conversation with a Times reporter yesterday, Mr P. A. de la Perrelle, M.P., said that the Film Industry Commission, of which he is a member, concluded taking evidence last week, and after two days in conference adjourned. It was hoped, he added, to finalize matters in about ten days’ time when the Commission’s findings would be announced. Every aspect of the film industry in New Zealand, covering a wide range, had been investigated and the results of the inquiries were being eagerly awaited. ♦ ♦ * ♦ Excursions to the Eglinton. The Eglinton Valley continues to attract tourists from distant parts as well as from Southland. Last week-end the Railway Department ran an excursion from Dunedin, a party of 20 travelling by train to Lumsden thence by bus to Te Anau and the terminus of the new road. On the Sunday an optional trip up the northern fiord of Lake Te Anau was taken advantage of by practically the whole party, and in the afternoon the bus trip to Lake Manapouri revealed possibly even more beautiful scenery than was seen from the shores of its sister lake, Te Anau. An Oamaru party, organized by Hunter’s Motors, is at present visiting the Eglinton. « * * ■» Aeroplane Breaks Transmission Line. An unusual accident which, fortunately, was not attended by any more serious consequences than depriving the whole of the Invercargill electricity area of power for 17 minutes on the afternoon of March 24 last, was reported to the Southland Power Board by the chief engineer (Mr L. B. Hutton) yesterday. At half-past five that afternoon, said Mr Hutton, a break occurred in the top wire of the transmission line at Myross Bush, near the Southland Club's aerodrome. This was caused by the wire being struck by a descending aeroplane flown by one of the club’s trainees. Fortunately the wire broke, as had it taken the weight of the plane and sagged to the level of the lower wires, a fatality must have resulted. Mr Hutton criticized the happening and said it was a serious matter, affecting as it did the whole of the Invercargill area of supply. Service was restored through the lines in 17 minutes. In answer to a question he said the costs to the board for repairs and loss of service was £l5. It was decided that a claim be sent to the Southland Aero Club for the cost of the repairs.