DEATH OF YOUNG N.Z. PILOT

Southland Times, Issue 24057, 22 February 1940, Page 6

DEATH OF YOUNG N.Z. PILOT

INJURED IN FLYING ACCIDENT (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, February 21. After a severe injury in a flying accident, Pilot Officer Robin Delamore, of the Royal Air Force, aged 19, of Auckland, died in hospital at Letchworth (Hertfordshire) on Sunday night. He was a son of Mr and Mrs A. Delamore, of Kuala Lumpur (Malaya) and an old boy of Wanganui College. He was brought up by his grandmother, Mrs Frank Rhodes, who was advised by cablegram. Since the declaration of war he had been engaged in patrol duty over the North Sea and was one of the most junior officers in the Royal Air Force. On leaving college he secured nomination for the Air Training School at Cranwell (England) but as the only New Zealand nomination for 1938 was not available, he nominated Malaya as his birthplace and won nomination in competition with other Crown Colony candidates. TWO DEATHS OCCUR AT HASTINGS MAN AND WOMAN COLLAPSE (United Press Association) HASTINGS, February 21. For the second lime within 24 hours a person has collapsed and died suddenly in a public place in Hastings. This morning a well-known man, Mr Harry Jones, aged about 55, collapsed on the rails at the Stortford Lodge saleyards and died within a few minutes. He is understood to have been in ill-health for some time. Mr Jones was well known in stock, farming and turf circles. He was a keen trotting enthusiast and owned and raced horses. He is survived by his wife. Mr David Jones, who represented various Canterbury electorates in Parliament between 1919 and 1931, is a brother. Collapsing outside the Post Office yesterday morning, Mrs Marian Wighton, aged 58, died within a few She had recently returned to the Dominion from a visit to Australia. BOY DROWNED WHILE SWIMMING AUCKLAND, February 21. A school boy, Arthur William Francis Scott, aged 13, a son of Mr E. Scott, of Clevedon, was drowned this afternoon in the Wairoa river several hundred yards up the river from the Clevedon wharf. In company with about six other children, including his small sister, he went to the river bank for a swim. He was seen to dive in and when he failed to appear again the children gave the alarm. A search was made and the body was found in a hole in the river about 12 feet deep.