COLOMBO TO CONTN FIORDLAND

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27796, 22 October 1955, Page 9

COLOMBO TO CONTN FIORDLAND

Meeting Propd"* Of More Spending

Hollyford ie Homer (N.Z. Press Association — Copyright) Talbot's (Rec. 10 p.m.) SINGAPORE, October 2>cpherson, k r Sound. The conference of member governments of th, g roup o f Colombo Plan has decided that the plan, should contiouiy iinpresuntil June 30, 1961. s c - A communique, issued after the consultative cc ves weil up 10 mittee’s five-day meeting ended today; said that f [Jy future of the plan should be considered by the im, we soon made mittee in 1959. Launched in 1951, the plan was 4s *to th S e h peak id the last until June, 1957. , Member governments intend to spend more merf™ k t n o l ' c t^ Be^!; i b ( ; year than ever before, said the communique: £7sZ,U(Miant’s Gate. Firm and spent in the last year. edge made good hand- * «y lodge provided footThe invitation to hold next year’s conference in *J? a s "drop was accepted. pn solid rock and good , . . or rapid passage. The rest The communique said that most countries to the summit offered, by maintained, and a few surpassed, their previous rat 11 * t , 1 ,^>, d 'Ar c H lty '. lV st , stecp progress in the last year. There were noticeably front o f us P 1 were °°he national income and output, particularly in y Peaks, their icy jewels mineral production and power generation. ;" 8 h inter-

At-the final open se ~‘on today, New Zealand’s Minister of External Affairs (Mr T.. L. Macdonald) told the meeting that great optimism had been shown at the conference. He said it was not just blind optimism, because due account had been taken of the problems ahead. Mr Macdonald said that be was looking forward to welcoming delegates to New Zealand in another 12 months. Singapore, he said, had set a very high standard with the present conference, but New Zealand would try to maintain it. Among the important decisions taken at the conference are:— Wtfy, .coveredw

bended Steeper slopes, alternating snow and slabby rock, lead to a higher ridge, CarX the near end of which rises to BirthdaX . Peak - We gave the name after Fwiii roakln S the first ascent on the birthd. a y of one of the party. It looks parches ticularly fine from about the bush line : Austrt by the route we had taken, besides stjent commanding a magnificent and common prehensive view. Along the ridge, in a westerly direction and now close up. The qgl we saw Terror Peak, clear-cut against a vitaso- the western sky. produci26 Returning to camp by a different people route, from the tarn, we passed standard through fields of beautiful mountain large in hues (Ranunculus lyallii) bearing their some coil, large clusters of lovely pure white enough, blooms above the tall snowgrass. The met A couple of days spent in bringing and Southip more stores from Milford Sound, perts and tboving the camp nearer the mountain their deveJCamp II), improving the trail, sketchstudents fmg and photographing were followed sent to s t uc y a thunder storm. The old adage addition to-tat thunder clears the air came true, sent into th,d in lovely sunny weather we made The coming first ascent of Terror Peak which of view nut ’

oi view pui Canada that. . velopment MARKING METERS Some proje. ♦ ln Britain fruit. Favours ditions have c. .. T for products c" o,n t' ie London Correspondent of easier for dev< “The Press”) tain capital eqi . LONDON, Oct. . 15. Prices of soaking meters have been introrice have falle; into several New Zealand cities pendent on exfoarked success for the local modifies have hjty. There were complaints An economic s;he public, but nothing to match communique saimbined front that is being put greatest problem motoring organisations in Lonof over populated Britain generally against the ment. This was Auction of parking meters to this increase in 10,000,000 person Road Traffic Bill, if it goes partly caused byb the House unchanged, will rate and also by *r local authorities to install owing to A combined press conference 2 Royal Automobile Club, the bile Association, and the Royal T?T7I7T> T? 1 , Automobile Club, put the Klt/r EKP boldl y- ft was said that park“ters were “an insidious attempt A/’ll? more money out of the car V lij/’ pockets without doing any.to alleviate lack of parking r car owner under British taxes, I .nfllPn I sympathise with the motoring vJllVlvU v/tions. The British motorists /-w <*nost zheavily taxed in the Ur Diem £ 400.C00.000 a year, and VI 1 get ]ess (or their money shere else. Government ad(Rec. 8 p.m.l PAI "’ready reported that off-

The South Vietnam have told the Prime Dinh Diem) that . to make him President t D f republic and to deposelX* South Vietnam Head i French news agency r> from Saigon. Mr Diem has organise’ dum for Sunday when th< nam people will be askar between Bao Dai and hii On Tuesday Bao Dai, v( absent from Vietnam for " months, announced that 1 missed” Mr Diem and tak, full power which he, as ' State, had earlier delega. Prime Minister. vSunday’s referendum is st diplomatic quarters as the of the struggle for •authorifBao Dai and Mr Diem. Last spring, when civil yi Vietnam between the fore" Mr Diem and troops of tl religious sects, Bao Dai L that he had taken military from the Prime Minister ano. a new army chief. « The Prime Minister disna announcement, and Bao a date for military power wad take over. Mr Diem, a Roman Catl enjoys strong American su] ignored a summons to visi in the Head of State’s palat Home.

/ ep face of Tutoko. where Will I\TT> Q Brian Johns (Singapore) and I IVXIVO ‘*d two climbs in the early , Above the seracs of A |Age glacier rose the glistening *A>V- of Madeline, calling to mind my mpt, in 1917, with Jack Murrell, of napouri, to make the first ascent. Q/wmz/ were huddled under the tent floor OCU lit a Storm for a day and a night, and iter, in a snowstorm, forced to seek Jhelter under rocks. From the summit of Mount Terror the last big peaks in the Wick Mountains offered their challenge, while Mount Elliott, in the south, still looked as grand as ever, dominating his satellites, Mount Daniel and others. Piercing the haze away on the dim horizon was the peak of Mount Irene, recently ciirtibed for the first time by members of the Canterbury Museum Exploration Group. We returned to our comfortable camp in the bush, and to the pressure cooker. When we were assembling our equipment, I was rather scorning the idea of a pressure cooker, because of weight and bulk, for I n ?® that I had two cameras. Well, I can now say that the pressure cooker behaved as well as any camera ever did. Looking back, we see great scope tor the camera besides scenery. There are the birds. We photographed keas, of course, but I am thinking of the tiny rock wrens and an old kaka, the latter high in the branches of a tree. Doth subjects for the tele-camera and modern flash technique. The material is there, including many interesting and beautiful botanical specimens, to say nothing of insects—one or our party found an enormous weta m his sleeping-bag! Nor need the keen pjctonalist want, especially in changeable weather when the mountams display their moods.

Counsc lomat. I? French f' Dr. Ev w cffge tarn, zith snow.

street parking is the only answer to .Britain s congestion problems, but they have been ignored. The motoring organisations are determined to battle until the proposals are “sunk without trace.” It would be no surprise to see the Road Traffic Bill ’amended.