BOWLING

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 516, 20 November 1928, Page 14

BOWLING

MANUREWA V. CLEVEDON An inter-club match was played between the Manurewa and Clevedon Bowling Clubs on the Clevedon green on Saturday. Following are the scores, Manurewa names first: Bryham, F. Wood, F. White, C. Robertson, 26, v. J. Hancock, Aicheson, H. Bull, C. C. Munro, 13; Grindrod, Coxhead, Fowler, J. Murray, 20, v. Quin, Dow, Smith, Trott, 19; Hodgers, McNaughton, Barnard, Pegler, 10, v. W. Hunt, H. Munro, Allport, Dawe, 24: Sidaway, H. Hood, Fawcett, Osborne, 21, v. Dowler, Brown, Ryburn, McCullough, 15; C. White, P. Nield, T. S. Gray, Butterworth, 32, v. Hepworth, Waterhouse, McKenzie, P. Graham, 14; Harris, A. Craig, Hawthorn, F. Law, 18, v. Mellsop, Greenfield, C. Graham, W. Hyde, 23. Aggregates: Manurewa, 127; Clevedon, 108.

The actual cheque of £2.1 presented to the Auckland Aero Club by Squadron-Leader Smith and Flight-Lieutenant Ulm on the occasion of their visit to this city has, after having been cashed in Australia, been secured by the A.A.C. It is proposed to frame this interesting memento of the famous trans-Tasman flight. * * * Some time ago the committee of the A.A.C. communicated with Colonel Brinsmead, 0.8. E., M.C., the Director of Civil Aviation in the Commonwealth of Australia, inviting him to a function during his stay in Auckland en route to America, where he will attend the International Air Convention. The somewhat disappointing news, however, has been received from Colonel Brinsmead stating that he is sailing by the steamer Ventura and will not touch New Zealand at all. He hopes, however, to make a call at Auckland on his return trip. * * * A.A.C.’s Hangar The hangar on the A.A.C.'s airdrome at Ihumata has now been completed and has been very favourably commented upon by the numerous enthusiasts who have visited the ’drome lately. A large shed, built in iron and capable of housing four machines, the hangar has also many extras in the way of necessary for the club to erect another hangar when the fujl quota of planes arrives * * * In the near future the Australian Aero Club, New South Wales district, will consider the advisability of changing its name to something less unwieldy and more distinctive. * * * Seaplane Carrier

Now that the seaplane carrier, Albatross, is nearing completion, says the “Sydney Guardian,” flying men are interested as to the type of machine to be used in this connection. There are still a brace of serviceable Faireys left in Australia —in this type of machine Goble and Mclntyre did the first seaplane flight round Australia — and hard work, mechanical assistance, and a lot of luck might coax the clumsy old seagull amphibians aboard. But new craft are urgently needed. Quite conceivably the Albatross will receive the first batch of the Defence Department’s aircraft order.

Improved Altimeter Among the devices being tested by the army air corps of America for safer flying is an improved altimeter that registers the exact distance between the plane and the ground objects below at all times. This would give a pilot reliable information as to his altitude even if he was flying through fogs or darkness. Instruments now in use are operated by atmospheric pressure, and show distance above sea level. Few of them are effective below I,oooft. Other experiments are being made with an installation to reduce the danger of landings in bad weather. It is a series of wires, radiating from the centre of

the airport and from each wire signals are sent to the receiving apparatus in the plane, telling the pilot how to govern his descent when visibility is poor. Survey of Aerial Route The Shell Company of New Zealand, Ltd., has received cable advice that Captain the Hon. F. E. Guest, former Under-Secretary of State for Air, and his party intend leaving London probably early in December in a Junkers FI3 monoplane and a Gipsy Moth on a survey tour of an aerial route between Cairo and Capetown. Captain Rattray, the Government Commissioner of the Gold Coast, is leaving London about the same time in a Moth plane, in which he will fly to Accra, in West Africa, where he will use this plane as an official means of transport throughout the area under his admTni.Vration.

Spectators have caused so many near-accidents at Oakland (California) airport, that officials have constructed a portable fence to keep persons away from the propellers. As soon as the plane lands and has taxied to its position on the field, the guard is immediately set in place around the ship so that visitors are kept at a safe distance from the whirling propeller blades.

British Planes for U.S.A. Large orders for British aircraft are now being received from abroad. The latest customers include the United States, where British light planes are competing successfully against the American mass-produced airplanes.

An order has been received from New York for a fleet of fifty Avro Cirrus Avian light planes of the type in which Mr. Bert Hinkler made his famous flight from London to Australia in 15£ days.

As a result of the successful 23,000 miles’ flight from London to Australia and back by a fleet of super-marine Napier flying-boats, orders have been received for similar flying-boats from several foreign countries.

From an Expert Interesting sidelights on American aviation are furnished by Major Breacley, head of W.A. Airways, in a letter to a friend in Perth which appeared in a recent issue of the Sydney “Guardian.”

From Chicago he wrote: “I was greatly impressed with the ease of control of the Ford thre&-engined machine.

It was remarkable how easily the machine is handled on the ground, owing to its being fitted with brakes and tail wheel. These machines are fitted with electric inertia starters, and start up like the motor-car. . . . Colonel Lindbergh landed here during the day, and we met him, and had a few' words of greeting. I-Ie is rushed as badly as is the Prince of Wales—people go crazy over him. National Air Transport flies 7,000 miles a day, and 80 per cent. of this . is at night, to be Irish. They have a staff of 58 men in the principal workshops at Chicago, and a total staff of 190. Twenty members of the staff are in the transport department, boosting mail and securing freight. With the lowering of the air mail rates in America they - came down in August from 10 cents to 5 cents an ounce—loads have been more than doubled already. As a result, there is a frantic rush for new machines, resulting in still greater activity for airplane builders. Evidence

of this increasing- activity is seen in the newspapers every day, and the public are now investing largely in aviation shares.” An indication of the patronage being accorded American air transport is furnished by a recent move by Reo Motors. As part of a new advertising campaign, they sent 350,000 letters by air post. The letters weighed 10 tons, and required 18 Stinson Detroiters to carry them. Cost —16,000 dollars. * * * Glider Record Peter Hesselbach, German pilot, remained aloft over four hours in a glider during a recent flight above the cliffs at Cape Cod. The feat constituted an unofficial record for America, the previous mark being held by Orville Wright, who remained up nine minutes and 45 seconds in 1911 while experimenting with planes. Hesselbach’s American performance is Tar short of the world’s record for gliders, however, as a solo flight of more than 14 continuous hours was made in Germany some time ago.