DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 April 1943, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

TRUCK AND TPvAIN COLLIDE INVERCARGILL, April 5. Sevferfe injtiries were suffered by Sergeant Marjorie Stout, a member of the Women’s Auxiliary Army (Corpse when the truck she was driving was stfUek by a train from Tiiatapere at, the show grounds. The impact of the train turned the vehicle round facing the opposite direction and smashing portions of it severely. The truck was carried 40 feet, and when the train stopped Sergeant Stout >vas picked up beside the truck. She was taken to hospital suffering from concussion, severe head injuries, a fractured shoulder blade, fractured right rib and lacerations of the right teg.

AIR OFFICER DISMISSED. WELLINGTON, April 5. The sentence of the general courtmartial held at Christchurch recently for the trial of Wing Commander John Thomas Brown, 0.8. E., M.S.M., an officer of the Royal Air Force attached to the Royal New Zealand Air Force has now been promulgated. The sentence, which has been duly confirmed is that Wing Commander Brown be dismissed from His Majpettv’e; c’prvicp Wing Commander Brown was charged with conduct to the. prejudice of good order and Air Force discipline in that, being engineer officer at a certain Air Force station, he did, without proper permission between February, 1940, and May, 1942, receive from the New Zealand Grinding and Gear Company, Ltd., its agents, or employees, in respect of contracts, made between the company and His Majesty the King for the manufacturing or processing of aircraft material and other engineering work, sums of money for his own use, contrary to the provisions of the King’s Regulations and Air Council Instructions. n Wing Commander Brown admitted at the trial that he had received sums of money.