The News

Northern Advocate, 31 March 1938, Page 4

The News

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RAIL-CAR travelling between ' Mastertcn and Palmerston North had a narrow escape from derailment near the Pahiatua Railway Station when a ccw, standing on the line, was struck and fell underneath the car. Fortunately, the wheels landed on the rails again.—(Special). 4s # ’ * * ).. ■ • r JWVO newspapers, the “Wairarapa ■ Daily Times” and the “Wairarapa Age,” long established ill Masterton, have amalgamated, and will publish . their final issues today. They are combining to bring out the “Wairarapa Times-Age,” an enlarged evening daily paper, which makes its first appearance tomorrow.- 1 -(P.A.).' ' * * * * ' ejpHE Air Ministry, has advised , -Mr •: H. J. Hobbs, of Christchurch,; that L his son, Flight-Lieutenant R. H. Hobbs, is missing and is presumed to: have lost his life when the Royal Air Force | flying-boat crashed, into the sea dur- -! ing manoeuvres off Brest. —P.A.). PEAKING" iff Auckland, >• oSkr : G. k Holland, M.P., remarked: '“The L doctors are to be the next industry to be socialised. Each doctor will have so many persons on a panel, • and i£>, you want another doctor you will have to pay so much mileage. If you .;, happen to have an appendix for/which you have no further use . and ybur; . doctor is not particularly good at that * particular job it will be just too bad. ; - There is consolation, though. He willL be under written, contract,to the Government and therefore will be to give it a go.”—(Special). ■ |