THE NEW JUDGE. AMONGST THE AIRCRAFT

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 18, 26 February 1914, Page 7

THE NEW JUDGE.

AMONGST THE AIRCRAFT

TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT. . . . .. By Cable: —Press Association. —Copyright. ' NEW YORK, February 24. Lieutenant Porte, of ' the British Naval Flying Corps, is willing to pilot a trans-Atlantic aeroplane.. Mr J. Wanamaker will finance the venture. GERMANY'S FLYING FUND. BERLIN, February 25. The German National Flying Fund iri 1913 received £361,725, of which it expended £107,975 in prizes, £87,613 on the training, of pilots, £28,905 on irisuring pilots, and £24,000 on the erection of flying centres and aeroplane stations. The flights ~ resulted in 12 fatalities and 115.,.,j machines being damaged. . ;

Mr .1 vistice Stringer, President of the Arbitration Court, sported worsted before silk, and carried the colours of the Province of Canterbury on moro than one football fiel<l. He played the game then—and he has played it ever since. The police say he is a "terribly fair man." And counsel who have opposed him malte the same remark. As Crown Prosecutor he strove always for justice rather than convictions. Out of robes he is one'of the three—or four —men who know what an after-dinner speech ought to be. He has none of the vices, and at forty-something is as fit as his son was when he played for Guy's. A cigarette and a motor-car, and a very large bundle of law-books, appear to provide his'recreation. Those who were articled clerks under him have always made that fact their chief boast.