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Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1927, Page 4

MOON’ OUT OF PLACE. AMITY THE ‘ECLIPSE AY AS EARLY. SOUTHPORT. July ]. Professor 11. 11. Turner, of the Univesity Observatory, Oxford, commenting to newspaper representative on the statement of the Astronomer-Roval Sir Frank Dyson, that the eclipse was three seconds early said : AA'e came to the same conclusion. It means that the place of the moon has still to he determined a little more accurately, hut we knew that before. AYe were timed to begin at 6hr.23. min. 52*eo. I gave the signal to “go” at olsee.. and Dr Shaw told me that I was 2sec., late. I was deliberately a lit tie late to prevent them from exposing too soon. The place of the; moon was a, little bit wrong. It is nothing serious. It is quite what wo expected, and the kind of information we were hoping to get It will be a help, not a hindrance. Professor Turner added that the photographs taken by bis party appeared to be quite good, considering the cloudiness of the weather. ONE-Alt MED MARKSMAN. LONDON. July 13. The chief competition at Bisley yesterday was the Ashburton Shield, the Blue Ribbon of public, school shooting. The trophy was won by Brighton College after an exciting match and the winners also set up a Ilisley record by being the first school to win five contests at one meeting. Sergt. Calcutt, one of the members of the Cranbrook School, Kent, team was handicapped bv having had an arm amputated from the elbow. He supported his rifle by a leather strap .attachment and made the highest score for his team. ATLANTIC AIR. MAIL. PARIS. July 13. Inquiries into the affair of the missing stamps, apparently taken’from the letters brought over by Commander Byrd in the aeroplane. America, in which lie crossed the Atlantic, and posted in the usual way at Vor-sur-mer. where he came down in the sea, have not yielded any result. Not only were stamps taken or stolen hut a certain number of letters also are missing, ft is declared that the letters had been in the sea for some hours and a number of stamps which had become detached were found in the bottom of the bag. AYherever possible these stamps were stuck on again, but this could not have been very general as it is clear from the cancellation marks that, in nearly every ease the stamps again became detached later.

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