General News

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28433, 13 November 1957, Page 16

General News

Still Whisky Galore

A party of amateur frogmen from Glasgow have made a successful raid on a whisky ship which has been lying wrecked in a sound between South Uist andj Eriskay since the early days of the war. They dived down 20 feet and salvaged several bottles of whisky which were difficult to get because they were in crates sandwiched between layers of bricks used as ballast. The wreck is that of the cargo vessel I Politician, which formed the subject of a popular film “Whisky .Galore.” It sank in a storm with , 21,000 cases of whisky aboard. Most of the whisky had been re- U covered but there were still three n or four thousand bottles waiting j. to be brought up. Most of the bottles the frogmen recovered ® were cloudy, but there were sev- a eral clear bottles among them. — London, November 12. t t Naval Launch Refloated 8 The 72ft Royal New Zealand ' Naval Volunteer Rescue motor launch P 3561, which was badly r holed and stranded on submerged g rocks on Rangipukea Island on J Friday night, was floated off the ( , rocks yesterday and is now lying f on a sandy beach near Te Kouma , Harbour. Coromandel. The launch , was on a routine week-end train- t ing cruise with a volunteer crew ' of reservists from H.M.N.Z.S. Nga- | I pona. Repairs will be made today . i and it is hoped to tow the launch . back to Auckland.— <P.A.) , E Vice-Regal Fisherman < t The Governor-General (Lord | Cobham) is to fish Waimarino . 5 streams between November 16 and ( I 30 for an introduction to angling • in New Zealand. Lord Cobham ’ and his party will stay in the Governor-General’s train which. ■ for the fortnight, will be stationed ; 5 at a siding at Waiouru. The Wai- , marino Acclimatisation Society " has arranged for Archdeacon J. R. ‘ Young. Raetihi’s most ardent and I most successful angler, to act as 'guide, philosopher, and friend to I the Governor-General during his visit to the district. — (P.A.) Fire Calls r The Christchurch Fire Brigade 7 answered 152 calls last month, y compared with 107 in October of last year. Actual fires were 57 (34 in October. 1956); chimney F fires. 21 (18); herbage, 42 (22). t There were 19 automatic false 3 alarms (15). nine justifiable (ID. three malicious (five), one special s service (two). 1 Return of Frigates _ H.M.N.Z.S. R o t o i t i and H.M.N.Z.S. Pukaki. which have! ■■ been on weather reporting duty in y the Christmas Island area for the ( recent H-bomb explosions, have ’ been released from duty. Announr cing this, the Navy Office said the e frigates would return to Auckland e on November 28. —(P.A.) N.Z. Industries n , Manufacturing industries in New Zealand had been welln developed for the size of this e country, but it seemed doubtful; g whether they would be extended. 6 said Professor S. J. Butlin, professor of economics at Sydney d University, in Wellington last e evening. A possibility was the iron industry, but iron ore, coal. ir and water did not make an iron it industry. New Zealand’s greatest a lack would be a market. Professor Butlin, who is in New Zeay land to do historical research for h the Australia and New Zealand d Bank, said that New Zealand’s economic development was at IS about the stage of Australia’s in d 1920.—(P.A.)