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Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1931, Page 6

Having served the New Zealand Air Force until the adoption of more modern machines, four Avro 504 h. training machines have been sold, states >i Press Association telegram. Three of these are fitted with 100 h.p. Monosupape engines and the fourth with a 100 h.p. He Rhone. With each machine were three spare engines and other stores. They have been granted a certificate of airworthiness for one year, but neither the purchaser nor the price paid has been divulged. A man deliberately threw a stone through the front windovrcrof the Bank of New Zealand at Auckland at eight o’clock on Wednesday morning. He later got on a tram and was pointed out to a constable who arrested him (after he had rung the police station notifying his action). It was some time after the breaking of the window before anyone appeared from inside the bank and by that time the man had gone. Later, George Airston described as a local body officer, aged sixty-two, limped into conit on crutches to answer a charge of committing mischief by wilfully damaging a window valued at £6 15s. He was remanded for medical observation.