General News

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28801, 23 January 1959, Page 8

General News

Dredge Decision The member of Parliament for Lyttelton (Mr N. E. Kirk) has returned to Christchurch after discussions in Wellington with departmental officers on the withholding of a licence for the Lyttelton Harbour Board to import a suction dredge from Scottish builders. Mr Kirk said yesterday that the Minister of Industries and Cominerce (Mr Holloway), with whom he spoke on the matter, would announce his decision on the subject when he was in Wellington next Monday. , Rams By Air Thirty-five Romney stud rams travelled from Invercargill to Helensville yesterday. Carted by lorry from near Invercargill to Dunedin, they were loaded into a specially-fitted National Airways Corporation DC3 freighter and flown straight to Auckland. The rams arrived in prime condition. They needed no food or water.—(PA.) Royalist Sails About 500 persons were on No. 4 wharf at Lyttelton last evening when the Royalist sailed for Timaru. On the quarter-deck, the Royal Marines band played popular tunes. Punctually at 8 p.m. the cruiser began to move away, the band playing “Now Is the Hour.” Within a few minutes the Royalist had turned out of the moles and had passed out of sight down the harbour. Small Fish Supply Supplies of fish were poor at the Christchurch fish market yesterday. High seas caused trawlers from Lyttelton and Akaroa to return to port before midday. About half of the boats at Timaru were unable to leave the harbour. Mr Skinner’s Flight The Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr Skinner) and his wife today flew around London and Hertfordshire in the Dari Herald—a new' turbo-prop airliner. The Handley Page firm was negotiating the sale of the Dart Heralds to the New Zealand National Airways Corporation, the “Daily Express” reported.— London, January 21. Sightings Of Takahe Eleven sightings of the rare takahe or notornis were made by a party which has just returned from four days in Takahe Valley, west of Lake Te Anau. The party consisted of Mrs' Olga Sansom, curator of the Southland Museum. Miss Dorothy Grantham; a teacher at Southland Girls’ High School, and Mr Philip Dorizac. Fiordland National Park ranger. Mrs Sansom and Miss Grantham were the first women to be given permission to enter the closed area where the birds breed. The object of the visit was to gain an understanding of the flora and fauna of this special area.—(P.A.) Lemons Arrive About. 250 casks of lemons and a small quantity of grapefruit, both grown in Tauranga, arrived at the Christchurch produce markets yesterday. They are expected to be in the shops this afternoon.