General News

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28413, 21 October 1957, Page 10

General News

Ships Seek Shelter Two vessels ran into Port Taranaki to shelter from the violent southerly gale yesterday. One was a Sydney top-sail schooner that attracted considerable attention during the afternoon. En route from Sydney to Nelson the schooner, the Ralph, anchored in the stream at about 3.30 p.m. to wait for the wind to drop. The 296-ton coaster Apanui berthed about 6 pjn. She ran into the strong winds on her run from Onehunga to Wanganui.—(P.A.) Coast Railway Closed The collapse of a culvert near the Dobson coalmine blocked the railway between Greymouth and Otira yesterday. Passengers booked on the rail-car which was to have left Greymouth at 6.15 p.m. for Christchurch were taken by bus to Otira to connect with a rail-car sent from Christchurch and were expected to arrive at Christchurch about midnight. The culvert had previously given trouble but this is the first time there has been major subsidence. Officials last evening did not anticipate much difficulty in making temporary repairs. Peninsula “Unheralded” Scotland, with “hardly any bush and an atrocious climate,” was far inferior to Banks Peninsula, but in its poetry, songs and paintings it had something which Banks Peninsula lacked, said Mr W. H. Montgomery, of Little River, when he opened the new Montgomery Youth Hostel at Hilltop on Saturday. Banks Peninsula was just as romantic as Scotland but the materials were not used, he said. There ought to be songs, paintings and poems of the peninsula but instead, in this respect, “it blushes unseen and unheralded,’’ he said. Antarctic Mountains The Queen Alexandra range, on the western side of the Beardmore glacier, may in fact be four ranges. Mr J. Holmes Miller, deputy-leader of the New Zealand Antarctic expedition, said this after flying to the South Pole in a U.S.A.F. Globemaster. As the aircraft flew southward up the wide glacier Mr Miller took a series of photographs of the area which he and Dr. George Marsh will survey by dog sledge later this summer. “After seeing those mountains I am more than convinced that there are at least three, if not four, separate ranges there, divided by glaciers,’’ he said. (From Denis Wederell. ‘‘The Press’’ correspondent with the U.S. Antarctic expedition.) New Member Many of the clauses in the constitution of the old Harewood Golf Club have been incorporated in the new constitution of the clubj adopted at the annual meeting, yesterday, but it is doubtful if one of these clauses would have, been included had not a secon-i dary schoolboy arrived at the! club’s closing day function. It had previously been agreed that clause 18 of the old constitution—that “the Governor-General of the Dominion, his family and staff shall be members of the club and shall not be liable for any subscription” —should be discarded. Before the meeting could be held, however, John Lyttelton, a son of the Governor-General (Lord Cobham) and a pupil at Christ's College, arrived at course. The proposal was abandoned and he became a member of th'e club. He is on a handicap of 16.

Film Of N.Z. Industry From toothbrushes to refrigerators or fashion shows to technical education—these are typical of the variety of subjects covered! by a new film to be released soon by the New Zealand. Manufacturers’ Federation. The film is de-j signed primarily to show New, Zealanders the scope of their own industries. Beginning with a re-1 enactment of the arrival of pioneers in Canterbury, the film shows how industry is providing for the needs of a modern community. Sugar From Java A cargo of Java sugar is due at Auckland this week in the Norwegian tramp steamer Maxmanus. The last shipment of raw sugar from Java to New Zealand was 17 years ago. The Maxmanus loaded 4000 tons of bagged raw sugar at Surabaya and Probalingo. Before World War II Java supplied New Zealand with a big proportion of her requirements. New Zealand supplies have also come from Cuba, Peru, San Domingo and Formosa.