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Quickstep honours to Auckland

Auckland Artillery Band, quickstep winners (top) and St Kilda Band, second in the Exhibition band...

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Quickstep honours to Auckland

Quickstep Day of the New Zealand Band Championships on Saturday was ushered in with a steady and continuous downpour of rain which lasted with only brief interruptions throughout the day, and...

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Eiffel stunt ends in tragedy

French army aviator Lieutenant Leon Collet attempts a flight through the base of the Eiffel Tower...

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Eiffel stunt ends in tragedy

Paris, February 24: A bet made by an airman named Leon Collet that he would fly beneath the Eiffel Tower had a tragic ending. The airman accomplished the actual feat, but when attempting to rise...

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Believing in success

The Italian dirigible Norge, also called N.1, in which polar explorer Roald Amundsen is to...

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Believing in success

Captain Amundsen is confident of passing over the North Pole in an Italian dirigible of the semi-rigid type from Spitzbergen to Point Barrow, Alaska, in May.

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Sanders Cup is Canterbury’s cup

Betty (right) leads Avalon around Castle beacon to win the fifth Sanders Cup race on Otago...

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Sanders Cup is Canterbury’s cup

A magnificent race, fought out grimly by two expert skippers and crews, resulted in Canterbury at last winning the coveted Sanders Cup on Otago Harbour yesterday afternoon.

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Most beautiful race

Auckland's Avalon (right) rounds the last mark to win the fourth Sanders Cup race from Canterbury...

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Most beautiful race

Avalon, the Auckland champion 14-footer, registered her second victory in the 1926 Sanders Cup contest by winning the fourth race after a close and exciting contest with Betty, the Canterbury...

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Superior to windward

Canterbury entry Betty hauls wind during the Sanders Cup competition on Otago Harbour. — Otago...

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Superior to windward

Betty, the new Canterbury 14-footer, registered an easy victory in the third race for the Sanders Cup, sailed yesterday morning over a windward and leeward course on the Upper Harbour.

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US athletes attract crowd

Visiting United States athlete Lloyd Hahn wins the 440 yards (quarter mile; about 400m) handicap...

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US athletes attract crowd

It is seldom that champion athletes from overseas come this way, and so it was not surprising that a crowd of well over 3000 should be present at the Caledonian Ground on Saturday.

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Auckland yacht cruises to win

Start of the first Sanders Cup yacht race, Otago Harbour. — Otago Witness, 2.3.1926

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Auckland yacht cruises to win

Avalon, the new Auckland 14-footer, registered an easy victory in the first race of the 1926 Sanders Cup contest, sailed on Otago Harbour yesterday morning.

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Flight path to South Africa

Mr A.J. Cobham on his arrival at the Wynberg Aerodrome at Capetown after his 8000-mile flight...

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Flight path to South Africa

Capetown, February 17 (received February 18, at 5.5pm) Mr Alan Cobham has arrived, concluding a flight of 2020 miles from Croydon Aerodrome, London.— Reuter.

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Lenglen overcomes Wills

Suzanne Lenglen ready to drive (left) and shaking hands with Helen Wills after defeating her 6-3,...

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Lenglen overcomes Wills

Cannes, February 16 (received February 17, at 5.5pm): The score in the match between Mademoiselle Lenglen and Miss Helen Wills was 6-3, 8-6, in favour of the former.

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Awards to Guides for brave act

Nelson girl guides, Jean Sanders (left) and Jean Jones, were awarded silver medals for saving a...

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Awards to Guides for brave act

Jean Jones and Jean Sanders, of the Port Nelson Girl Guides Company, who last year saved a lady from drowning in the Motueka River, have each been awarded a silver medal.

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Road workers busy in Port

Port Chalmers, viewed from the Robert Falcon Scott monument looking towards Portobello. — Otago...

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Road workers busy in Port

At the monthly meeting of the Port Chalmers Council, the Works Committee reported that the principal work of the past three weeks had been the new concrete channel in George St.

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Rain does not stop play

Bowlers in their 80th year and over gather for ‘‘elderly bowlers’ day’’ at Dunedin Bowling Club. ...

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Rain does not stop play

The twelfth anniversary of the Elderly Bowlers Day took place on Saturday on the Dunedin bowling green.

Green Island School at 70

Pupils from 1856 to 1874 at the 70th anniversary of Green Island School. Otago Witness, 23.2.1926

Green Island School at 70

An important event in the history of Green Island — the seventieth anniversary of the opening of the school — is being celebrated at present, the functions being spread over three days.

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Winner’s breeder Dunedin-bred

Mr J. S. Barrett's Count Cavour wins the Dunedin Cup at the Dunedin Jockey Club's autumn meeting...

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Winner’s breeder Dunedin-bred

There is a story based on fact that the Dunedin Cup has never been run in wet weather.

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Mack wins

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Mack wins

In the championship driving and yarding contest at the sheep dog trials, held on the Exhibition sports ground on Tuesday, Mr J. Donald, of Paerau, with his dog Mack, scored 46 points.

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Kaikorai murder trial opens

Nola Ellen Hart, and her two brothers, were allegedly murdered by their mother. — Otago Witness,...

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Kaikorai murder trial opens

At the Supreme Court yesterday Ellen Hart was charged with the murder of her three children — Lindsay Alexander Hart, aged five, Andrew William Hart, aged three years and five months, and Nola...

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Kuia laments her people’s absence

Mataatua, the ornate whare whakairo on display at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition,...

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Kuia laments her people’s absence

She stood looking mournfully at the Maori House, with its beautiful carvings and its ancient timbers. She was an old Maori with a proud, erect figure and, as she gazed up at the handiwork of her...

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