DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 24 August 1946, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS

MR. COOK RESORTS. ■ WELLINGTON, Aug. 22. Extensive developments in the Southern Alps that will provide mountaineers and snow sportsmen with greater facilities are to be translated into accomplishment as soon as possible, said the Minister in charge of tourist resorts (Mr. Parry). Immediately material and labour are available a considerable amount of work on huts, deferred during the war, will b e resumed. It will be some time before many projects can be carried out, but certain safety developments will receive early attention One of these is the installation of radio telephone communication between the Hermitage Hotel and various alpine huts, and between other mountain hotels and huts, investigation has'been made into the possibility of using the type of radio set that was developed during the war for the use of airmen forced down at sea and known as the Gib son Girl.” BIGAMIST SENTENCED DUNEDIN, Aug. 23. Alexander Kerr, a labourer was sentenced to 15 months withhar labour for bigamy, oy Mi ' Kennedy. He said he believed his hist wife to be dead at the time of the marriage. He had made some inquirips “It is quite clear that what you say by way of excuse is false,” saio his Honour. “You must have known, and, in fact, you did know, that youi wife was alive when you contracted this marriage. You met a young gnl of 19 years, and within a week you married her.” DANGER OF MAILING MATCHES P.A. WELLINTON, Aug. 23. In a renewed warning to the public against sending matches through the post, the Postmaster-General (Hon. P. C. Webb), said that in a recent instance matches in a parcel awaiting despatch burst into flame. Only the vigilance of the officer on duty prevented a serious lire. 'Had the parcel been in transit, results might have been far more serious, nl future the Department would be obliged to seek the enforcement of substantial penalties against offenders. GERMANS NOT DOWNHEARTED WELLINGTON, Aug. 22. “If the British people get soft hearted we will be in for another wa> in 20 years time,” said Mr. W. W. Mulholland, leader of the New Zealand delegation to the international conference of agricultural producer!! in London, on his return to Wellington. The attitude of people he met in Germany, he said, was not a bit repentant. They said, in effect: “Well, we had a good go, and we got the worst of it. Perhaps the riext time luck will be the other way.’.’ I'he damage done by British bombing of large German industrial cities could not be described. In country districts, however, even in large towns, the people seemed well fed. They appeared to have had rather a good time during the war. They had prospered and had seen little bombing or fighting. NOTED AIRMAN’S BROTHER AUCKLAND, Aug. 19. Following Dominion-wide publication of a Press Association message from London that his family had not heard from him for years, Mr Donald Donaldson, brother of Group Captain E. M. Donaldson, who is commanding officer of the British high speed development flight, has been located in Auckland. Since early in the war he has been working in a factory Mr. Donaldson said he was almost overcome with emotion, when he read his brother’s’ message in the paper. He had come to New Zealand with a draft of English public school boys' to take up farming 20 years ago. His mother, who lived at Selsey, England, not far from Tranmere, where Group Captain Donaldson’s flight has its headquarters, had written to him from time to time until shortly after the evacuation of Dunkirk in June, 1940. In her last letter she mentioned that Group Captain Donaldson had

been awarded the Distinguished Service Order for work he did during the evacuation. Mr. Donaldson replied, but he had not heard from her since.