GENERAL NEWS NEW ZEALAND AIRCRAFT FOR JAPAN

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 March 1946, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS NEW ZEALAND AIRCRAFT FOR JAPAN

Air crews stationed at the Rukuhia airport have been engaged in the last few weeks testing Corsairs designed to take part in the occupation of Japan. Of the 24 machines it is proposed to send, 12 have left for Hobsonville, and the remainder will leave within the next few days. The aircraft will be placed on barges in the Auckland harbour and will be taken out to the aircraft-carrier Glory, which is due in Auckland shortly?

Fire Brought Under Control. The large scrub fire, which had been blazing for two days in Centennial Park, half-way between Whatipa and Kareware, was brought under control yesterday afternoon,according to reports received by the Auckland City Council’s Waterworks Department. It burned fiercely over about a -square mile, and but for the •efforts of 40 members of the Council’s staff, could have threatened the Huia dam watershed. — (P.A.)

Third Pacific Survey Flight. Advice has been received by the Auckland office of the Pan American Airways that a third survey flight is to be made over the San Francisco to Auckland route. An aircraft is expected here from San Francisco on Wednesday and will leave on the return flight on Friday. It is not known whether the flight will be made by the Skymaster which has made both the early, survey journeys or by a Constellation type, which will be used when the service starts. The first slrvey was made in January, and the same aircraft returned again on February 19. —(P.A.)

Manufacturers’ Conference. Timaru will be the venue of the first conference of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation to be held since the end of the'war. It will commence on Tuesday, March 12 and continue for the remainder of the week. The president, Mr. W. J. Truscott of Auckland, will preside and the conference will be officially opened by the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Mr. Sullivan. The keen interest which is taken by manufacturers in the affairs of their national organisation is evidenced by the fact that over 120 delegates have already signified their intention to be present. Ship Desertions.

“Frankly the position is that some of the older British ships are not built to the high modern standards of crew accommodation, and there are limitations in ship design which make it impossible to alter the accommodation,” said the managing director of the Shaw Savill and Albion Company, London, and president of the International Shipping Federation (Mr. Basil Sanderson), when asked at Auckland to comment on the increasing number of ship desertions in the Dominion. “Improvements have been made to the maximum extent possible, and will continue to be made,” he continued. Crew accommodation in new ships, however, would be better than anything evolved so far. School Patrols.

“I think it would be proper to say that I was very impressed with the way in which the two scholars forming the patrbl gave their evidence. They were entitled to top marks for their effort, which reflected credit not only to themselves but on their school,” said Mr W. F. Stilwell, S.M., in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court when he delivered a reserved decision on a charge preferred last week against Edgar Jepson, tram driver, of failing to stop and yield the right of way to school children using a crossing on the morning of November 13. The information was dismissed through failure on the part of the prosecution to establish that necessary authority to appoint school patrols' had been vested in the headmaster of the school concerned. —(P.A.) Girls’ Silk and Cotton Panties, elastic at waist; creme and peach only. Sizes 18in. and 20in. Priced 3/11.—C. Smith’s.—Advt.

The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, built by the Emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial to his wife, is one of the most beautiful sights in India. And to the average housewife, a very lovely sight is a pile of snowy white linen freshly laundered by the Westland Laundry. It’s a real joy to let the Westland Laundry attend to all your laundry problems, for you can absolutely rely on their work. Choose the service which suits you best— Bagwash, Thrifty or Fully Finished. Phone 136. Depot: Sam McAra, Mackay Street.—Advt.