Prime Minister Again Delayed

Grey River Argus, 6 October 1948, Page 5

Prime Minister Again Delayed

SYDNEY, October 5. ■The departure for London of the Quantas Constellation plane by which the New Zealand Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, is booked as a passenger, has again been delayed until 10.30 o'clock. The plane was due to leave Mascot Aerodrome, Sydney, on Saturday night, but the departure was successively postponed to Sunday and then to yesterday. In explanation of the further postponement, a Quantas spokesman said the complete overhaul carried out to comply with the Civil Aviation Department’s certificate of airworthiness had delayed the departure. The plane is the fourth Constellation delayed in leaving Sydney in the last seven weeks. U.N. Conference On European Trade (Reuter —N.Z.P.A.> (Rec. 8.45) GENEVA, Oct. 5 The United Nations Confeernce on East-West trade in the closing session decided by ten votes to nil to establish a special committee to foster trade and economic co-operation between all of the countries of Europe. Russia and the five other East European countries abstained from voting. They did so because they considered that the resolution did not lay sufficient emphasis on the necessity for developing the indutries of the war-devastated countries of Europe.