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\ CSTItAMAN AND N.Z. CAIII.K ASSOI .-IION A fire ON STEAMER. (Received This Dm- at 10.15 a.m.' LONDON. Dee. 5. A ill - broke out in No. (i hold ol the steamei Boorara at Hull. Ihe flames made progress till the copra cargo wins reached in No. 5 hold before it was extinguished. The damage is exteiisiv‘V | AN AIR ACCIDENT. LONDON, Dec. 5. Aeroplane pilot flight lieutenant A. F Roach, o! the Australian flying corps, crashed at Aiicsey. Bedfordshire. Corporal Laurence was killed and Roach injured. A third (~■<•,ipant. an aircraft man, Palmer. e s .a|K'.l by jumping just hoi ore the machine crashed. P,diner sues the starboard engine drop-
ped in its revolutions ami e.iu.e,. sideslip of about I'orly-live degrees, when going sixty miles an hour. After the plane crashed he heard Roach cry, •■Get me out.” With the help of a policeman he found Roach pinned under i, strut and petrol lxmring over his f-icc They sawed through the strut ami released him. j
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1921, Page 3
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167BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1921, Page 3
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