TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1918, Page 1

TELEGRAMS

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AER OP LANE ACCIDENT

(:I IRISTCH UR CH, Sept. % . One of the Canterbury Aviation Commnv’s aeroplanes was destroyed A tire'at Sockburn aerodrome yesterday. This type of accident is common enough in living schools of the Old M olid. A Sockburn pupil, "ho had gone through his training iu good style, am was ready to undergo the test for his “ticket,” was about to make a flightHe “took off” a little too suddenly, however, and the nose of the machine humped the ground That occurrence in itself is ft very ordinary one, but it so happened that on this occasion t lar which the machine suffered caused the petrol pipe to hurst. Die escaping petrol was ignited by a spark from the engine, and flames quickly spread to the nacelle.

The pupil got out of the machine without suffering any harm. Several members of the company’s staff promptly ran to the burning plane with lire extinguishers. They saved the engine, but the plane itself was destroy eel.

NEXT WAR LOAN. WELLINGTON, Sept. 26. Regarding the-raising of the next War Loan, the Finance Minister said that in all probabilty such an operation would be unnecessary before the early period of next year. FINED £lO. FONTON, Sept. 27. At the Magistrate’s Court here this afternoon, before Mr. Page, S. M.» Thomas Powell, a picture show proprietor, was charged with a breach of Section 26 of the Amusement Tax Regulations, hv issuing a ticket more than once. He was convicted and fined £lO and costs £2 12s. This is the second case of the kind in the Dominion.