DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 September 1943, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

BUSHMAN KILLED. WHANGAREI, September 21. | | Believed to have been attempting’ ito rescue his small dog from the path of a falling tree during timber felling in the Morningside bush, Omahuta, Henry George Ogle, aged 49, single, a bushman. was caught underneath the tree and crushed to death. It was discovered after the tree had been broken up that the bushman had the body of his do? clasped in his arms. REHABILITATION NELSON, Sept. 21 i Plans for new industries had already been completed and the Government knew where they were to 'be established, said Mr. Skinner, Minister of Rehabilitation. “We aie planning new industries and also planning for rehabilitation of wartime industries to peace time industries. Industrial reconstruction ard rehabilitation is not being ’overlooked. Plans for new industries are complete right down to the last handfud of nails. We know the number of men and the type of men we want for these industries, and where the industries are to be established, and this is quite the most interesting sice of our rehabilitation problem today.” FATAL ARGUMENT CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 22. Charged with manslaughter, James Keith Ward, an airman, aged 25, was remanded to appear at Timaru on September 30, when he appeared before Mr. E. C. Levvey in the Magistrate’s Court this morning. It was alleged that at Timaru on September 6, Ward, by an unlawful act, the striking of Charles James Keenan, caused Keenan’s death. The Magistrate asked if the case was a serious one and counsel (Mr. Thomas) said it was the result of an argument in which a blow was struck. “Evidently the man had something extraordinarily wrong with him, as he died the next day.” Bail was allowed in £2OO, and a similar surety. RAILWAY WORKSHOPS.

WELLINGTON, September 21. Mr. M. Moohan, chairman of the Rehabilitation Board, announced today that arrangements had been made with the Railways Department to inaugurate a training scheme whereby unskilled and semi-skilled returned railway servicemen will be given an opportunity to become fitters, turners, moulders, boilermakers, welders, blacksmiths, electricians, .tinsmiths, coppersmiths, plumbers, bricklayers, painters, carpenters. etc. Training is io be given at the four main railway workshops, and also at Invercargill, Easttown, Napier, on the West Coast, and in other places. Training will commence at a weekly rate of £5/5/-, and progressive increases will bring this to £6 in the last six months of training. A similar scheme for returned soldiers of other Government departments is being arranged.

POST OFFICE INTRUDER AUCKLAND, Sept. 22.

A man was surprised and arrested in the Royal Oak Post Office at 10 o’clock last night, when a detective arrived and found him on the premises. Investigations showed that gelignite had been packed into the keyhole of the safe under the counter, in readiness to be exploded, out no detonator or fuse was attached. A quantity of mail posted after 5 p.m. had been riddled, and some cheques were missing. The police have secured possession of at least one cheque. The building was entered by breaking open the posting box, and crawling through. This morning, in the Police Court, Trevor Norman Foote, labourer, 34, was charged with breaking and entering the counting house of the Royal Oak Post Office last night, with intent to commit a crime. On the application of the police, he was remanded until September 30.' LOW FLYING ALLEGED. BLENHEIM, September 22. How an Air Force officer whose home is at D’Urville Island watched a formation of three aircraft diving low into his bay on August 21 and afterwards a 700 yards length of No. 8 fencing wire stretched 200 ft above the water between the hills to carry settlers’ wireless aerials had been brought down was told at a District Court-martial at a Marlborough air station yesterday. Accused were Sergeants Alexander George Peter V/olff and Donald Robert Thorp, both of whom pleaded guilty to charges ol low flying. A third pilot, Sergeant Norman Miller Quarrie, admitted a charge of negligently damaging an aircraft by colliding with the wire. He pleaded not gnilty to a charge of failing to report the damage to the plane and wilfully, giving false evidence when examined on oath during the taking of summary evidence by stating that the altitude maintained throughout a reconnaissance flight on which he and the other two accused were engaged was about 4000 ft. The hearing is proceeding.