DOMINION NEWS JOURNALISTS TO VISIT NEW ZEALANDERS IN JAPAN

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 February 1947, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS JOURNALISTS TO VISIT NEW ZEALANDERS IN JAPAN

Three Nev/ Zealand journalists, Messrs. G. S. Roydhouse (the New Zealand Press Association), B. A. Mair (Star-Sun, Christchurch), and W. G. Blundell (New Zealand Free Lance), will leave Auckland by air on Thursday for Japan. The journalists, who are going to Japan at the invitation of the Government, will travel by a Dakota aircraft. The journey is expected to take about 10 days. They will spend from two to three weeks in Japan, and their total absence from Nev/ Zealand will be about six weeks. It is hoped that the men will be able to visit other areas, including Tokio, as well as the New Zealand area, but travel outside the New Zealand zone will have to be at the invitation of the United States authorities. The men will be given an opportunity,,, to study the conditions under which New Zealand troops live, and the amenities provided for them. They are going as an independent mission so that the people of New Zealand can be given an account of the occupation task allotted to New Zealand troops.—(P.A.)

Second Man Dead. Jack Robert Woods, of Wanganui, who suffered extensive head injuries and concussion when he was involved in a speedway motor-cycle accident at the Palmerston North showgrounds on Saturday night, died in the Palmerston North Public Hospital at 1.30 a.m. yesterday. Another man injured in the crash died on Sunday.—-(P.A.)

Schooner Delayed Dogged by persistent head winds all the way from Guadalcanal to Auckland, the Public Works Department’s auxiliary schooner Tague, arrived in Auckland early yesterday morning. The vessel, which brought a cargo of aircraft hangar parts, was a month on the trip which for her is normally a 10-day run. Heavy weather caused the schooner to put into an Australian port for a week. —(P.A.)

Heat Through Window A window blind in the house oi Mr J. Collie, of Naylor street, Hamilton, caught fire through the sun shining on the leadlight in front of which the blind was hanging. The aiwle of the sun apparently turned the window into a magnifying glass. Smoke from the smouldering blind attracted attention before it burst into flames. During the last few days the temperature •in Hamilton has been high, ranging from 80 to 86 degrees in the shade.

Atomic Power. Dr. Dunsheath, a visiting English engineer, now at Auckland, takes a conservative view regarding the development of atomic energy. He considers that the promise of such energy should not be allowed to defleet efforts from continued development of power from water and coal. There was a tendency, he thought, to be over-optimistic about the rate at which atomic power would be available for every-day use.—(P.A.)

Man Drowned in Surf. One man was drowned and another escaped when a 10ft dmghy overturned in the surf at Waitarer beach on Sunday afternoon. The dead man was Patrick Aylward, aged 49, farmer, of Levin, a married man (with one child. A li saving reel was taken out by L. Loomas, of Shannon and the othei occupant of the boat, William John Crighton, was assisted ashore m an exhausted condition. Aylward was then brought to the beach with th ■- reel but failed to respond to artificial ’ respiration.—(P.A.)