AVIATION
FAMOUS PIONEER DEAD. (United Press Association—By Electric, Telegraph—Copyright.) RIO DE JANEIRO, July 25. Signor Albert Santos Dumont, , the world pioneer of aviation; died at Sao Paulo on Sunday, a , v The late .Signor Santos Dumont, wpn! recognition as * ah- air pioneer on three Continents 'in the days immediately preceding and following the .discoveries of the Wright brothfei-s, of the tJrtited States, glider champion killed.
BERLIN, July 24, Gunther Groenhoff, aged 24; holder of the gliding record of 138 miles nonstop, was killed' shortly after he and four other glider pilots commenced a distance race at the Rolten mountains. Groenhoff jumped from a machine, -but it was at an insufficient altitude for his parachute to function. ■ i A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION.
OAPETOWN, July 24. Three planes left Windhoek to dl imonstrate against a contumacious chief. Ovambos, who refuses to pay a fine of ten cattliß. The chief.took a new wife, who was dissatisfied, and fled to a mission station.' The chief, was fined for trespassing and endeavouring to recover her.
The Administrator of the , South West has issued a re-assuring.' statement to the white settlers, as the tribe is well armed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1932, Page 5
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