LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1931, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Piloted by Captain J. Jones, the Shell Oil Company’s aeroplane “Golden Shell” arrived at New Plymouth from Hawera at 7.10 last evening. Captain Jones, who is accompanied by Mr. T. Castle, leaves at 8.30 this morning for Auckland. A Western Federated Aero Club’s plane, piloted by one of the pupils on a solo flight, arrived from Hawera at the Bell Block aerodrome at 10.15 a.m. yesterday. It will remain in New Plymouth until some time after the pageant.

What was an accommodation house in the early days, a two-storied building on the Main Road just north of the Waitara Bridge, is being partially demolished for the purpose of making it a modern residence. The builder states that the timber in the building is heart of kauri and is in a wonderful state of preservation. A Taranaki team of 10 men is to meet a Wanganui tea... in-'a relay race of 250 yards at the Hawera Club’s swimming carnival on March 9. This decision was reached by the Taranaki Swimming Centre at its New Plymouth meeting on Tuesday night. • Mr. A. W. Lawn, of the Hawera Club, was appointed sole selector of the Taranaki team.

“Rubbernecks” and sightseers are hard to keep out of a place like a railway station at night. Although officials were posted at all entrances to the N6w Plymouth railway station last night to keep spectators away from the platform before the refugees from Hawke’s Bay arrived, a number of youths effected an entrance by stealthily bobbing around the trucks in the yard. Following further argument in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth yesterday, Mr. Justice Adams reserved his decision on the motion for a new trial of the divorce suit by Harold Neaves Austin against Violet Eliza Austin, on the ground of adultery with William Jaines Newall, co-respondent. The motion was based on the contention that the verdict of the jury in favour of the petitioner was against the weight of evidence.

The period of economic stress through which Australia is at present passing has affected the business carried by the Australian National Airways on its service from Melbourne to Brisbane to such an extent that a number of the company's pilots have been dismissed and the remainder rationed the work offering. This information was contained in a letter from Wing-Commander Kingsford Smith, who controls that service, to a Hawera resident. Some of the machines have been laid up in the hangars for want of work. The Melbourne Ltd., New Plymouth, have been appointed solo agents in Taranaki for the distribution and sale of the famous Elizabeth Arden toilet specialities. Venetian face powders, skin tonics, Lille lotions, Pore cream, cleansing cream, antiwrinkle cream, and other beauty preparations always kept in stock. The brochure ‘The Quest of the Beautiful,” supplied gratis on application.*