Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 714, 13 July 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

FLYING TO DEATH.—The Madrid x£T esilondfrlt o£ "The Times’’ says a giV* ll9 * l military airplane, while flyuf Tarifa, near Gibraltar, struck !£*** Picket and bumped so violently 422 two officers who were passengers flun & out and fell 4,000 feet to -a.h—Tim?s Cable.

jORT OF MELBOURNE. —The anJpJJ re Port of the Melbourne Harbour list Commissioners shows that the tonnage of shipping at the port tlle P ast year totalled 11.734.340 , w hich is a decrease of 715.000 , The report says there is effecap® berthing- of 50,453 feet, with an * of 6S acres of wharf space. -BEQUEST TO AUCKLANDER.— ‘|i- John Hayes, a retired publisher, ,"o was lost overboard from the n ' rama between Auckland and SydatVf 8t March, left an estate valued , Among the bequests un- , *, e testator’s will is one. of £3OO s * Rogers, o£ Auckland,

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