DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1932, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

AIR MAIL SERVICES. Per Press Association — Copyright. J WELLINGTON', October 24. “The year wad notable for t'ae number of occasions on whr. It mails were carried in the inland postal service by air,’’ otates the Postmaster-General, the Hem. Adam Hamilton, in the annual report of the Pot and I olograph Department. “The (lights on each occasion were made by arrangement with the New Zotalbrnl Air League, The flights, as tli-a first official air-mail llight over the routes concerned, were well .supported, particularly by the stamp collecting pub- 1 lie., It is, however, not considered that there is ynv need or desire for regular air-mail services of the kind, in view of the speedy transport of mails by land and soa. FOUND .SHOT. AUCKLAND, October 25. Geoffrey Herman. Pe’mers, 19. an recount's ncy student, left home yesterday t 0 shoot rabbits and did not return. TTc.'was found by ft constable lying j dead iat the (not of a 20 feet hank. < Death was due to a gunshot wound | over the left eye. j ( It was .stilted sR tb'> iii'pvst, wldch } Wa-' adiourned, that Refiners apparent- f ly slipped and the gun was accidental-1; ]y discharged as the trigger wag found f caught on a tvaig cf a tree, j