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Shannon News, 5 January 1923, Page 3

A very thrilliiig spectacular event, was provided at the Lyttelton regatta •one day last week* when A. E. Eastwood made a triple parachute descent .from an aeroplane, piloted by Captain 'Euan Dickson. The machine came over jLyttelton at a height of 4000 feet, and after it had manouvred over the harbour the parachutist climbed out on a wing from which lie dropped. Each parachute opened promptly, and the dock just behind Lyttelton, final drop was made on to an open padAkapita Takitangata, an* educated Maori of Awahuri, no-w seventy years of age, states that he was the first Maori in Manawatu to open a post office savings bank account. He was prompted to do so by the fact that his jiame, Tahitangata, means "the first -man/’ and in the hope that his fellow Maoris would follow him, and thus acquire the savings bank habit for his people. A party of New Zealand miners left this country for Russia about four months ago, states the Grey River Argus, and, it is believed, reached their .destination safely. They will work in -„ the Siberian mines*