Halleluiah! our Money's Safe!
Houdine IT £*** “SF jfKfj uoes So uaol MELBOURNE. Thu. (1.30 p.m.L— Known as “Houdini II.” Malcolm Charles Boyle, 27, of Sydney, will return to Darwin this week under police escort after serving a gaol sentence of six months for larceny. He will complete the sentence imposed in Darwin 18 months ago for a similar offence. He escaped from the police station at Darwin and was rearrested at the Darwin RAAF officers’ mess where he was posing as a naval officer and trying to arrange a passage by courier plane to the Philippines. Escaping again, he reached the Philippines where he posed as an Australian officer.
He lived at the United States Army officers’ mess in Manila and later hitch-hiked to the United States where he lectured army officers. He was arrested by the United States Federal Intelligence and extradited to Australia by the Marine Phoenix, from which he escaped by diving overboard in Auckland harbour. He was arrested by the New Zealand police and sent to Sydney, but was again missing when the vessel berthed. After being believed to have been eaten by sharks, he was finally arrested in Melbourne.
730 Men Cease fork ft! Huntly AUCKLAND, Thu. (P.A.).—Three j mines are idle in the Huntly district today—the MacDonald, Glen Alton and Pukemiro. This means a daily loss in output of over 1100 tons of coal and that about 730 men—half the miners in the Waikato coalfields—are unemployed. There are no indications of an early resumption of work. Work ceased at the MacDonald mine yesterday after a dispute concerning the rate of payment for the removal of bottom coal to the working place in the mine. Miners at Glen Afton have struck in sympathy with those at MacDonald, which is under the same management. The men at Pukemiro, who yesterday voted with those at the Rotowaro, Alison and Renown mines to refer the subject to the local disputes committee, today decided to return home after a meeting'. The Rotowaro, Alison and Renown mines are working normally today.
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Northern Advocate, 12 August 1948, Page 5
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