LEADING U.S. SCIENTISTS

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28434, 14 November 1957, Page 23

LEADING U.S. SCIENTISTS

Visit To I.G.Y. Bases In Antarctica

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, Nov. 13. Two leading United States scientists, Dr. L. M. Gould and Dr. H. Wexler, will arrive in New Zealand on Saturday for a short visit before flying south to inspect International Geophysical Year bases in the Antarctic. Dr. Dould is director of the I.G.Y. programme in the Antarctic, and Dr. Wexler is chief scientist. They will arrive at Auckland on Saturday, and will fly to Wellington in the afternoon. On Monday they will meet members of the New Zealand I.G.Y. Committee, and will discuss future scientific co-operation between the two countries in the Antarctic. The chairman of the committee (Dr. E. I. Robertson) will report on his recent visit to Scott Base and the joint New Zealand-United States station at Cape Hallett. Later, Dr. Wexler will give ar illustrated talk to the committee and other New Zealand scientists on geophysical phenomena observed in the Antarctic during the last year. The Americans are expected tc fly south from Christchurch nex’

Tuesday. Saturday Trading.—The attitude of the Greater Wellington and Hutt Valley Retailers’ Association towards Saturday trading was defined at its annual meeting on Tuesday evening. A unanimous resolution said: “That having regard to the fact that the legislation of the country provides for penal rates of pay for all Saturday work in retail stores, with higher penalties when Saturday work is part of a six-day shopping week, this association reaffirms its support of the policy

' of the New Zealand Retailers’ Federation in opposing any departure from the five-day, 40hour, Monday to Friday shopping * week, except in the special circumstances envisaged in the Shops I and Offices Act,” —(P.A.) i