FOURTEEN MONTHS TO BEACH WIFE
AUCKLAND. Nov. 8. In a world of speeds which approach the supersouic it took Alajor S. h. Hett'erlev, of the Britisli Militan Missum in China, 14 months to reach New Zealand, to spend two months' leu.e. Ko left China tliree days after VJ Day to join his' wife in Dunedin 011 furlough and arrived at Auckland this morning 011 the motorship Nellore i'roni Sydney. Major Hetterley- twice tried to crus> the Ilimalayas into Lndia in llalifax bombers that were foreed to turn back because of eirgine trouble, aiul liitally reached Calcutta in a Dakota. . From tliere, the Army sent him to Bombay, and he left Madras for Sydney, via Singapore and Brisbaue, but had to remain four moiiths in Bydney before he could obtain a passage across the Tasman in the Nellore, which had been delayed bv- the Sydney water fronr strike. ■
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 November 1946, Page 2
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