City Pilot Bails Out
SINGAPORE, April 29. A 28-year-old New Zealand Air Force pilot today parachuted to safety minutes before his Venom jet fighter plunged into the Straits of Johore, separating Singapore from the Malayan Peninsula, a Royal Air Force spokesman said. The pilot. Flight Lieutenant Michael Palmer, of Christchurch, used his ejedtor seat 1000 feet over the Johore Straits when th® engine of his Venom failed during a routine training flight. He was picked up unhurt shortly after by a police launch. Flight Lieutenant Palmer was attached to Number 14 Squadron,- Royal New Zealand Air Force, based in Singapore. His wife and two children are in Singapore.
Apartheid in Nursing.—A select committee report supporting a bill before the South African Parliament providing for apartheid in the nursing profession has been published. The committee recommended that apartheid be introduced in the profession by establishing an all-white nursing council supported by two advisory boards—one for Africans and the other for coloureds. This provision is already in the bill before Parliament.—Cape Town, April 29.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 13
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