NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3565, 30 August 1920, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

PIANO-PLAYING RECORD. WAIMATB, This day Albert Steele, at the Arcadia Theatre, completed 106 hours’ 15 minutes continuous piano playing, winding up freshly after midnight on Sat.urday. OBITUARY. DUNEDIN, This day. Obituary.—A. S. Orhell, of Walkouaiti. Deceased was prominently concerned with the Farmers’ Union and was a member of the Board of Agriculture. He was also keenly interested in the turf, and owned and raced several horses. 1 FIRE AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, This day. A fire last night in Arch. Clark and Sons’ shirt and collar factory in Grey Lynn was confined to that part of the

building, wliicTi wa s not badly burned; but stock valued, at £20,000 sustained serious damage by fire and water. The room where the fire started was practically gutted. Insurances totalled £20,000 In the New Zealand and South British. The factory employed about four hundred, mostly girls and women, but it is understood that the fire will not interfere to any great extent with their work. AVIATION. BLENHEIM, This day. Captain Evan Dickson arrived at Blenheim form Wellington at 4.25 p.m. on Saturday. He left Wellington at 3,20 p.m. There was dull weather when he left, but he raced a bank of clouds. Otherwise he had a fine trip.