ROAD SERVICES’ REUNION

Press, Volume C, Issue 29602, 26 August 1961, Page 18

ROAD SERVICES’ REUNION

: 150 Expected To : Attend More than 150 are expected i to attend a reunion of past i and present employees of the New Zealand Railways Road ■ Services in Christchurch this > week-end. ! Some visitors were coming ■ from as far north as Franki ton and as far south as Dunedin, said Mr D. A. Smith, , a member of the reunion • committee. i Visitors will meet this ■morning. A conversaz- ■ ione. dinner, and social will ■ be held in the Lowe Street i Hall, Addington, in the afternoon and evening. Official guests will include the Minister of Railways <Mr McAlpine) and the Superintendent of the Road Services (Mr G. R. Pearson), Tomorrow the reunion will ' make a sightseeing tour of the city by bus. Police Shoot Refugee (NJZ.P.A.-Keuter—Copyright) BERLIN, August 26. ■I Communist East German transport police last night • shot and killed a refugee who tried to swim across the Humboldt Canal harbour to freedom, the Associated Press reported. | The man dived in and attempted to reach the WeMi ern sector of Berlin, I West Berlin police said the transport police fired re- ! peatedly at the swimmer, who disappeared. Frogmen found his body about three [hours later. I