LATE LOCALS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1932, Page 6

LATE LOCALS

It was found on Monday morning that the pfa-te glass windows of ‘HalIqnstein Bros., and Mir JL, shops, at Westport had 'been' damaged through some miscihievious- person scratching iihem extensively with what was probably a -glass-cutting instrument.,. ~j, . r . ;

dPilot-Officev L. F. J. Taylor, an Wd boy . of; the Southland Boy s’ 11/igh School'• whoi left*. Invercargill 'about'a year* ago to join the Royal Air- Force m -England, has advised his , parents,. Mr and Mrs W. L, Taylor, that,, with Mr: Jack Bqrgesjs son of Captain Burgess of ’the Government, steamer Matai and Mr Guy Menzies, the well-known aviator, who crossed the Tasman in a solo machine, he has been posted foam the Henley,. Aerodrome to the Oaishot JBoyal Air Forse Base,., hear Southampton. This will mean a change over from fighters, whieh are. comparatively shrill solo machines,; to flying ’’boats*, which . talseT a-ferew/"ofy six men in addition to the first pilot. It is probable that Mr Taylor will lleaye in December.-for the Singapore Base.

A special feature at an. aerial display at Wellington last week was. FlightLieutenant G, By,. Bolt’s exhibition or crazy flying. Taking off 'with, the tip of one wing touching the ground, and careering around within the confines of the aerodrorhe, he thrived even the most stolid spectators. He touched the ground first with a wing, 'then a wheel, and continuing the rolling motion With •*h« other wheel and wing.- He charged fences, speeding up ‘ the engine at Hhe last moment, to stagger over the obstacles, or flew at golf houses, arid bitumen' -plants, as Don Quixote at a lyiridmilir’ Firiai’lyV he landed- wiifvif wing tip on" the gfoiirid—a pivot roundfvjiich the ; wheel described' ah'arc.’Anotiife'r' spectacular item was the -towed 'iii’rig by Mr L. F. P. Taylor, who piloted a glider, which was towed by a motor-carj round the aerodrome until he reatoh a height l of about 160 feet. w)’ien he dropped the tow rope alid glided down, the wind whittling through the wires and , fuse 1 age to a gentle landing. A‘ formation flight by three moths completed the programme..