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Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1920, Page 1

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AUSTRALIAN iV N./. UAH'.<5 ASSOCIATION. 'I®AIN COLLISION. (Received this-(lay at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, August 3. An empty train shunting at Hurstvillc to-night crashed into the rear oi a stationary passenger train telescoping three end carriages. Two passengers were killed and fourteen injured, many seriously.

PAR.EE AT DARWIN. DARWIN, August 3. Parer was expected in the forenoon but.did not arrive till after dark. A large number of people gathered anxiously awaiting the aviators who succeeded in making a graceful landing, after flying over the town. The last stage of the journey from Otomdoco occupied eight hours. Parer is boyish looking and stated when he was ready to start at six in the morning, they found the carburetta faulty owing to the rubber having perished. It had to be taken to pieces and the departure was postponed, for three hours. Shortly after starting the air speed indicator went wrong and they were unable to tell the drift of tlio air. An empty petrol tin was lashed to the machine to serve as a float, if they should be compelled to descend in the sea.. A storm was encountered in the early part of the journey and strange air currents in the latter part. These currents carried them considerably out of the course. Smoke from big hush fires obscured the Coast, but eventually they sightel Darwin, after a very anxious time owing to the low petrol supply, which was only sufficient to carry them another two miles. The aviators met with a great public "-elcome and were afterwards accorded a reception by the administration. In a few days thev continue their flight across Northern Territory to Brisbane, rroing thence to .Sydney.

V. R. O. MELBOURNE, Aug. 3. At the annual meeting of the Victoria Racing Club, the Chairman announced a campaign was being initiated to secure a legalised totalisator. It was intended to bring pressure to boar on candidates at the forthcoming State party election to support the machine.