MR. FRASER'S PLANS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24370, 4 September 1942, Page 2

MR. FRASER'S PLANS

SHORT VISIT TO CANADA NOT GOING TO LONDON (Reed. 10.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 It is officially disclosed that the New Zealand Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P Fraser, will leave for Canada on bndav, where a one-day conference is scheduled with the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. W. L. Maczenkie King. Mr Fraser will return direct to JNew Zealand from there. Officials said he was not going to London. ■ Mr Fraser, after the Pacific Council meeting, had a long private talk with President Roosevelt. Later he conferred with Mr. Philip Murray, president of the Congress of Industrial Organisation. He was a guest at a special reception at the New Zealand Legation, where 300 officials of the United States were present, including three Ambassadors, Lord Halifax (Britain) M. Litvinov (Russia) and Dr. T. V. Soong (China). STRUCK BY TRAIN BOY FATALLY INJURED (0.C.) HAMILTON, Thursday Fatal injuries were received by a bov, James Lewis Roycroft, aged 12, son of Mr. W. G. Roycroft, of Morrinsville, when he was struck by the Rotorua-Auckland express on a railway viaduct on the Matamata side. of the Morrinsville station. He received a broken left leg and severe head injuries. He was brought on by the train to Hamilton and was admitted to the Waikato Hospital, where he later died.