DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 29, 1 September 1916, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

aviation accident. * Per Piess Association 1 . Auckland, August 31. While a oupil of the Kohimarama Aviation School was making a flight in a Candron seaplane, he met with an accident, resulting in the machine falling into the sea, and causing damage to the wooden framework and t (l one of the floats. The pupil escaped willi immersion in the water. The mishap was caused by the machine ascending at too acute an angle, or in professional language “stalling.” The seaplane was about seventy feet in .the air, when it fell. A launch attach'd to the aviation school, went to the rescue, and aftcu taking the pilot on board, towed the damaged machine ashore.

A SERIOUS CHARGE. Wanganui, August 31. As a sequel to a young woman’s death in the Wanganui Hospital, Richard Patrick Pollard, formerly recruiting officer to the Defence Forces, at Hawera, was charged at the Supreme Court to-day. before Mr Justice Edwards, with the illegal use of an instrument with intent to procure a miscarriage. Ihe prosecution relied on deceased’s desposit'.ous, whit b stated that the operation was perform(.d hy a strange man at the bedroom of the Dominion Hotel, iH'awora, usually occupied by another Defence Officer and a companion of accused. The defence was that accused was no party to «fcho operation. The jury disagreed. A fresh trial was ordered.