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OLYMPIC GrAltEB. LOS ANGELES, August 2. In the first heat of the 5000 metres Saykl;;r>. :<f!.r running second, into the Lad nt the sixth lap, but dropped to secohd at the eighth, and subsequently went back to fifth. Hill won, and then came Virtanen, Lehtinen, Lingren, Savidan and Hillhouse. The field was well hunched* at the finish. LOS AN'iKLJBS, August 2. .In tli ■ 2oii metres' second trials, Klliot was third, qualifying. Clack was eliminated in the Gut'O metres’ trials Savidari (New Zealand) was fifth and Hill house (Australia) sixth, both qualifying. * t ARAPUNT 3DBPECT. AUCKLAND, August 3. Tli- chairman of the Auckland Bower Boa-rd said this morning that the Board had ‘received no* ’thing,official from Arapuni, but unofficially it hud been requested tq be ready to inn their stand-by ito operation when requested. The plant could be in full working in it few hours. Its capacity w;i? tI.r.OOKW, sufficient to supply not only the Board's area, .but the aii .is of adjacent boards, should Arapuni temporarily . close. Users of power neea have no apprehension <-f a shortage. A Hamilton message says that a shaft i* being driven near the suspe'eted locality (if the seepage. -PLANE lIT SNOW. (Continued from Page- 7.) Mr H. M. Ma- k.-ty. managing director of New Zealand Airways, a passenger In the machine, desc-rib- ■ : : into stinvr at liakaia. The pilot followed tin . lilway until they had crossed the Selwyn, where the snow became particularly thick. The pilot then headed for tb« coast, but so thick had the snow become that the machine followed a half circular course, and reached' Rakaia again F >ll wing, the railway line aga i lacl ine proceeded north and on reaching Addington the pilot saw the cleared space of the trotting grounds, where he made an excellent landing. Mr Ma l that the pilot : " knew their position the whole time,„ and tin- machine Was ucvet lost or <n a#iy danger. CORPSE EXHUMED. . I t-. Ilu- " Star.- > A i'KI.AM', August 3. A sensation was caused at North Short morni when a police
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 522, 3 August 1932, Page 12
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