Air Ambulance's Trip.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 71, 16 December 1937, Page 4

Air Ambulance's Trip.

A trip to Napier and back to pick up a patient was made by the ainbu- j lance machine of the Auckland Aero i Olub on Tuesday. Leaving Auckland at j 9.45 a.m. the Beeehcraft, piloted by Mr H. J. D. Lambert, arrived at Napier at 11.30. Bad weather was met on the journey, espeeially" over Tauranga, and the pilot flew iniand for a time, striking the coast again between Gisborne and Napier. An uneventful return trip was made at a height of 10,000 feet. Mangere aerodrome was reached again at 2.15 p.m., the trip north having o> cupied an hour and three-quarters. Last Dunedin Pawn Shop. Once upon a time the city of Dunedin supported 13 pawnbrokers' shops, but perhaps that was in the days when the facilities offered at such establishinents made a particularly strong appeal to men who wished to convert their personal property and household goods into a more negotiable form for risking a tuni on the wheel of fortune at the goldfields. Whatever the reason was the number of p,awnshops decreased as Dunedin outgrew its turbulent youth, and for some time past only one surviving pawnshop existed. The surviving establishment, which has been in existence for some 80 years, has been purchased by an Auckland company. Milton Instead of a Trowel. The ordinary custom of presenting a silver trowel to the person who lays the foundation stone of a public build- 1 mg, was set aslde by Mr R. A. Lippiiif cott, architect of the new biology block at Auckland University College, wiio handed instead to the Minister of Education, the Hon. P. Fraser, two volurnes of Milton, printed about 200 years ago. Mr Lippincott said that the Minister would be asked to lay the stone with ordinary mason's tools. He added that the gift of the books expressed symbolically that education required both art and science, new things and old. Mr Fraser, in reply, said that he was both surprised and really grateful. ' 1 There is no writer that I place higher than Milton," he remarked. "Mr Lippincott must have been almost psychic to have thought of such a gift."