DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1930, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

AIOTGILCYCLING

ENGLISH TEAM FOR. -NEW ZEALAND.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, October 16,

The English Auto 'Cycle Union has selected the following English team to compete in the test matches with New Zealand on New Zealand Roeedways traek s this season: Roger Frogloy, Jim Kempster, Frank Charles. George Greenwood, Harry AAfftfield and Frank Bonds.

The team leave England .this month, and are due at Wellington on December 16. The dates for the test matches are: February 21, at Dunedin; February 28, at Christchurch; March 7, at Wellington; March ,14, at Auckland.

TRIBUTE TO MINISTER. WELLINGTON, Oct. 16. .A striking and genero'is tribute to the acting-Prime Minister (jiio Hon. E. A. Ransom) was paid by Mr AV. Nash, Labour member for Hutt, today, when thanking Hie Minister .for the manner in which he had, received a deputation from the General Labourers’ Union. Mr Nash said that lie line! lrye-r known a Minister of the Grown grasp a case more clearly and asnwer points so readily as Mr Ransom had. Tl u > Minister's amuvers were not always satisfactory, but he felt bourn 1 to say that Mr Ransom never avoid ed making a state-merit if lie thought that the statement was justified from his point of view. AEROPLANE DAMAGED. LANTUNG ON A BEACH. AUCKLAND. Oct. 17. As a result of striking soft sand when landing on the west coast bc-veh a few m'les south of Port .Waikato the commercial rerov-l'-ne 1 •>!on r ing t- . Cadbury, Fry Hudson, Limited, arid bound from Dunedin to / Auckland, via Daiinevirke, had its proyell r and tail damaged. Repairs have .now .her*” effected .and a suitable .opportunity for taking off from the ibeach is being awaited. Heavy fog, which intqnV’-ered with visibility, led to the pilot., Captain Af. C. Al’Gregor, deciding to land on the beach to await better atmospheric conditions. However, the tide was fairly far in and, keeping above the .water’s edge as it landed, the machine struck the soft sand above high water mark and tippet. Captain M’Gregor made his way to Port AVaikifito where he communioa'-tod with the Air Survey and Transport Service Company ‘at Ho.bso-nvilla, obtaining the assistance of an aeroplane mechanic and also having a iv?w propeller sent out.