A whirlwind at Eden Park, Auckland, last Monday gave*an impressive demonstration of how. to clean up the back yard at the'expense of the neighbours. Travelling along the terraces on the northern side of the gfo.und, the whirlwind collected' "the waste paper left by last Saturday's 1 football crowd and lifted it in a perpendicular column over a hundred feet high. In the centre of the vortex a strong updraught shot tho paper skywards as the rapidly revolving column. drew it in. Big sheets of newspaper- went right up out of sight, and half an hour later were seen as tiny flecks in the sky floating' towards Epsom.
A flight to Auckland and back from Wanganui in one day was made by Flying-Officer lan H. N. Keith last Saturday, with a passenger, in a Western Federated Flying Club's, machine. The machine. left the Wangspiiii airport at 6.25 a.in. and landed. at New' Plymouth' at 7.30 : a.m. Half an hour later a start, was made for Auckland, the aeroplane landing at Mangere at 9.55 a.m. On the return trip a speed of approximately 80 miles an hour was made, the time of departure being 3 p.m., and the time of arrival 6.5 p.m. On the trip north tho weather was very good as far as Baglan, where the machine was forced to climb above clouds. On tho way back the pilot came round tho coast, the weather being particularly good. '
At Stewart Island some months ago Mrs T. Ryan, the wife of one of the island fishermen, presented her husband with three baby girls. Recognition of this event has now been made by his Majesty the King, the Roval bounty of £3 having been granted to Mrs liyan. The arrival of the three little girls was duly reported to his Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Bledisloe) by the then Minister for Internal Affairs (Mr P. A. de la Perrelle), and, the necessarv formalities having been complied with, his Excellency has received advico that his Majesty has been Rraciouslv pleased to grant the Royal bounty. It mav not be generally known that the Royal bounty has been paid on several occasions in New Zealand, four mothers having received it dnrinc the Inst five years. The bounty is paid to British subjects only. The children must be alive, and their birth must be reported withm four months if the bounty is to be received.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20351, 25 September 1931, Page 12
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