NECESSITY FOR TESTS

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29763, 5 March 1962, Page 14

NECESSITY FOR TESTS

NX’s “Regret” Expressed (NX. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, March 3. The New Zealand DeputyPripie Minister (Mr Marshall) said yesterday that New Zealand regretted the necessity for Britain and the United States to test nuclear weapons. He said that any decision made by them to do so had been brought on by Russia’s actions, British United Press reported from Tokyo. Mr Marshall said New Zealand had little if any say in the selection of Christmas Island for the United States tests, because Britain controlled the island. Mr Marshall told Japanese business men that New Zealand wanted to expand its trade with Japan in view of the likely British entry into the Common Market, American Associated Press reported.

Found Drank.—Ford Percival Hicks, a workman, aged 50, who was charged with being found drunk for the third time in six months, was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment, when he appeared before Mrs G. M. Boyd, and Mr R. H. Duff, justices of the peace, in the Magistrate’s Court, Lyttelton, on Saturday. Sergeant R. D. Wales, said that Hicks was found in possession of a partially consumed bottle of methylated spirits on Friday evening. Hicks pleaded guilty.