LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1918, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The Paoroa sails for Okarito on Afondny evening. The Success dredge washed up yesterday for a return of 38 o.xs fur 110. hours work. Air. 'Frank O’Sullivan, brother -of Air. Tom Pollard, has arrived in New Zealand from Australia, to arrange a tour of the smaller towns for the “Daddy Long Legs” company. All- Tlios Brown of Blue Spnr has been advised by the Minister of Defence that his son Private iE. (Ned) Brown had been admitted to , hospital in France between February 23rd and 26th, gassed, severe. AVl)at appeared to he an aeroplane with,flights was seen by several people in Christchurch on Wednesday evening, says the “Press” between 7 o’clock and 7.15. It seemed to be travelling in a south-westerly direction, at a rate estimated at- something like 20 miles an hour, and was at a considerable height. To some, at first sight, it looked like a planet but its fairly rapid movement dispelled that idea. Others surmised that it was a fire balloon, but to other observers it looked like an aircraft under control. It seemed to pass along the qdgo of f dark cloud in the southern sky and writ finally lost to sight. A telephone enquiry elicited from the Aviation School it was not one of the machines from the school; it was also stated that none of the machines is used at night time, for flights.