NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4435, 3 April 1930, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

The driver of a New Plymouth baker’s van got a nasty shock the other day, but it was a wonder he got off so easily. A heavy electric cable in St. Aubyn Street broke and fell across the passing van. The loose end of the cable curled round the van and pulled it up short. Sparks flew all round, but the driver must have been insulated from the current, and escaped any injury. A monoplane constructed al Whukatane was given a flying test on Oliope Reach on Sunday by the builder, Mr. John Allison. The ’plane rose from the beach and flew about, a mile Usll. up in the air, but as the motor did not appear to be l auctioning perfectly the aviator deemed it wise to effect a lauding and not make any more tests that day. A further flying test will he made this week.

Aii exceptionally low tide was experienced between iiukiu and the Aianawatu Heads on Sunday alter.liiuii, so niucii so tliat iL was poslijle to walk right round the old Hyderabad wreck and to explore die inside of the hull (says the Chronicle). The last of the top.,r lias gone overboard, and the mainmast, resting on the port bulwarks, formed a convenient means oi access from the seaward side. Although the vessel is cracked amidships, the steel hull still holds together after nearly iiily-two years of battering by tides and storms. The Hyderabad was dri- \ mi ashore on June 25th, 187 b.