General News

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28474, 2 January 1958, Page 6

General News

Trade Practices A thorough investigation of unjustified trade practices, and early action, would have a high priority, said the Minister of Industries and Commerce (Mr P. N. Holloway) yesterday. The Minister said that he had already asked his department for a full report. The department had been studying this question for some years, and as a result of day-to-day work a lot of evidence had been gathered as to what was actually happening. —(P.A.) Amateur Constable Fast work by a Christchurch motorist yesterday afternoon resulted in the arrest of two young men who wilL appear in the Magistrate’s Court today facing charges of unlawful car conversion. The motorist also recovered his own car which he had reported missing earlier in the afternoon from a parking place in St. Albans. He was in Cashel street when he saw what appeared to be his vehicle occupied by two men. He detained the men until the arrival of Constable C. Lee, who took them in charge. U.S. Supply Ship The American Antarctic store ship Arneb is due to berth at Lyttelton on a voyage south at 3 p.m. today. The ship carries supplies for the Cape Hallett and Knox Coast scientific stations, and scientists who will relieve men who have already manned the stations for a year. The officer commanding the American polar task force (Rear-Admiral George Dufek) is expected to fly his flag in the Arneb early next week before the ship puts to sea, and travel in the ship to the Antarctic pack ice where he will transfer to the transport Greenville Victory for passage to MeMurdo Sound. Reunion With Chimp The correspondent of the “New Zealand Herald” says that Robert Tomarchin, the Henderson Island castaway, was reunited with his chimpanzee, Moko, when the Rangitane called at Pitcairn. Island on Tuesday. Clinging to the back of Mr Charles Christian as he went up the Jacob’s ladder, Moko was immediately surrounded by the crew. Passengers and crew cheered happily at the reunion. Southland Earthquake One of the sharpest earthquakes felt in the district for some years marked the start of the New Year in Southland. The 30sec earthquake shook houses and disturbed New Year revellers, but caused no damage when it passed through the province at 2.30 a.m. At Lake Monowai, about 75 miles northwest of Invercargill, a man said the force of the tremor was equivalent to the shock felt in Wellington during the 1943 Masterton earthquake.—(P.A.) Record Road Deaths The Transport Department announced last night that 382 persons were killed on the roads in 1957. This was the highest yet. Previous highest was 360 in 1954. For a country of the size of New Zealand the 1957 figure became like the death-roll of an epidemic, the department said. Road deaths last month were 34, the same figure as for December in the two preceding years. The department urgently appealed to all road users for more care.—(P.A.) < ; ; <