TEN MILLIONS GIFT FOR BRITAIN

Grey River Argus, 31 August 1948, Page 5

TEN MILLIONS GIFT FOR BRITAIN

Australian Labour Party’s Proposal (Rec. 11.25) CANBERRA, Aug. 30 A recommendation has gone to the Federal Parliamentary Labour Party from the Cabinet that, in the budget, provision be made for a gift of ten million pounds to Britain. ’ The Caucus is expected to approve of the gift. This would be the second gift from Australia. The first gift was one of twenty-five million pounds last year.

American Air Liner Crashes: 36 Killed (Rec. 7.40) NEW YORK, Aug. 29 An airliner with thirty-six . passengers aboard, crashed near Winona, Minnesota at dusk to-night, while on a flight from Chicago to Minneapolis. All aboard were killed. Eight ‘bodies have so far been found, but the wreckage is scattered over a mile area, and the recovery of the remaining bodies may be delayed until the morning. The aircraft ran into a violent storm that ripped through South Eastern Minnesota, uprooting trees, and causing widespread damage. The aircraft was a twin-engined, short range transport, which is a new type, specially designed for post-war travel. CLOUDS AND RAIN AT TIME OF CRASH (Rec. 10.20). NEW YORK, Aug. 29. In the Winona air crash, the air liner flew into a five hundred feet hill near the Mississippi River. There was no fire. One eye-witness said that the air liner burst from clouds in heavy rain at full throttle. It looked as if it was trying to gain altitude to climb over the hill. Then it made a complete turn, cleared two smaller hills, and roared crazily into the third hill. PARTS cFmISSING PLANE IDENTIFIED OAMARU, August 30. A landing wheel and parts of the fuselage of an aircraft which were found on a shingle beach north of Pukeuri on Saturday morning have been positively identified as having come from the Puss Moth machine owned and piloted by Mr Angus McIntosh, of Invercargill, which has been missing since Wednesday last. An intensive search of the sea in the vicinity of the beach where the wreckage was found is being made by a fishing trawler and a launch, assisted by a South Canterbury Aero Club plane. "With the discovery of further pieces of wreckage yesterday and this morning and the location of two oil patches on the water yesterday afternoon, it is believed that the missing plane may be lying in 30 feet of water between 200 and 300 yards off the Pukeuri beach at a point some distance north of where the landing wheel was picked up Shortly after eight o’clock this morning the trawler, St. Michael and the launch, Julia, began dragging operations two miles south of the oil patches found yesterday, at one of which a buoy was anchored 1o mark the place, and, with almost the first drag, a cushion marked “ZK-AJW” was recovered. Some time later a portion of a box on which the words “Angy Mack” Were printed was dragged up from the sea bed. Dragging operations were continued in the vicinity of the oil patches but these had not been successful up to one o’clock, although it is believed that one of the grapples was hooked on to something heavy, which was lifted, but was subsequently lost. An Oamaru police party patrolled the shingle beach yesterday and-again to-day, when further pieces of splintered wreckage were found.