Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wednesday 26 September 1956, page 4


Where's the airman?

TO THE EDITOR

THE Cairns (Qld.) branch of the Air

Force Association is trying to trace an

Australian airman whose aircraft was shot down in north-east Italy in the early summer of 1944.

He parachuted to safety, and an Italian soldier put him in touch with the under-ground, who took him across the border into Austria or Yugoslavia.

The Italian soldier has since migrated to Australia and has bought a tobacco farm in the Dimbulah dis-trict of North Queensland.

He now wants to meet the airman.

The airman was in a plane, which attacked a bridge called Ponte di Sanvito Al Tagliamento, on the River Tagliamento, in the province of Udine. A town near the bridge is, I believe, called Vizignano.

He parachuted at a town called Cordovado. The Italian soldier contacted the underground, then had to hide for several days from German troops. His name is Enrico Schincariol.

The airman was a big, blond man.

A. D. RUSSELL, hon. secretary, Air Force Association, P.O. Box 90, Cairns, Qld.

They will get wet!

AS a member of the

Melbourne Foot

ball Club, I would like to state my views on the new stand at the M.C.G.

The M.C.C. has demolished a stand, which was completely covered in, and have replaced it with a stand costing over £600,000, and which was supposed to provide shelter for an additional 40,000 people - yet half of the seats in this stand will be uncovered.r

Consequently during the football season, and the finals in wet weather (which is not unusual in Melbourne) this portion will be useless. What happens when people have reserved seats in the unprotected portion on a wet day? Does the M.O.C. intend to provide an Umbrella Bar in the Olympic

Stand?

So after the M.C.C. have spent a vast fortune on a

structure, which has taken about 2i years to build, and a lifetime to pay off, the big stand in the outer built about 20 years ago, and costing less than a third of the new one, will still be the best on the ground where shelter is concerned, because it is covered in from end to end on both

IP.VPIR

J. BASSEXT, Chapel st., St. Hilda.

Thick with rust

TTHE approach of the

Olympic Games reminds one of the sorry condition of Governor La Trobe's cottage at Jolimont.

. The corrugated iron roof is thick with rust, the walls dingy with grime, the garden untidy.

It is to be hoped that this historic building, which will no doubt be viewed by many visitors, ?will be painted and the garden tidied up before the Games.

B. H. BROOKES (Camberwcll).