SPOILED BY RAIN
LONDON OPEN-AIR FUNCTIONS. ARMY AND AIR PAGEANT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright;. LONDON, June 24. A downpour spoilt a huge programme of open-air function, and enforced the cancellation of the King’s review of the London Territorials .at Hyde Park. His Majesty, in regretting the cancellation, paid a tribute to the patriotism of the men and their employers', and hoped to see the parade early ill the future. iC Sporting events were abandoned, including the Queen’s Club finals, while the Air Force Pageant at Hendon was robbed of much attractiveness. 1 Although tli.?. programme was curtailed, three Furies made a courageous display, despite poor visibility. They soared through the pelting rain at two hundred miles an hour with their wings; barely thirty feet apart, rolling, looping and zooming. Often they were invisible among storm clouds. Similarly, although bad visibility enhanced difficulties in keeping distance, nine aeroplanes linked by cables to winch streamers were attached, exhibited complicated manoeuvres. GREYHOUND DERBY RESULT. (Received this day at 9 a.m.) . LONDON. June 25. A newswire says that though most of the daytime sports were washed out yesterday, 700,000 at White City in the evening Raw Future Outlet, 6 to. 1, win the greyhound Derby by a short bead from Beef Cutlet and Wild Woolley, (] to 4 favourte. Time for 525 yards 29.80 seconds. '
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1933, Page 6
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221SPOILED BY RAIN Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1933, Page 6
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