IN JOHORE
N.Z. Prime Minister
ENGINE TROUBLE DELAY
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright). (Rec, 10 a.m.) SINGAPORE, Apriy7, While the New Zealand Prime Minister (the lit. Hon. P. Fraser) was visiting Kota Tinggi, ill Johore, to-day, he met his namesake, Sergeant Mb Fraser, an ex-Pales-tine policeman at present training special constables.
Sergeant Fraser hails from Hill-of-Fearn, Rosshire, Scotland, the *same hornet town as the Prime Minister.
Mi’ Fraser, on a first-hand, information! tour of Johore, under the guidance of his host here, the Commissioner, General Malcolm Macdonald, inspected special constables, chatted With Inniskillhig officers recently back from a jungle operation, and met several planters. Messrs Fraser and J. B. Chifley are expected to take-off, in another Constellation, to-morrow morning for London, after a 24-hour delay, owing to the. failure of the engine of the Constellation in which they arrived. This Constellation arrived at Singapore on three engines, the fourth having been feathered for about half the journey from Darwin due to a defect.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 159, 18 April 1949, Page 3
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