EARTH GETS FASTER

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30110, 19 April 1963, Page 9

EARTH GETS FASTER

Cause Of Bad Weather? (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) TOKYO, April 17 The revolution of the earth has become unusually faster since the turn of the year, probably foreshadowing abnormal weather this summer. according to the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory The observatory said the faster revolution of the earth could possibly be linked to unusually severe cold spells, which hit various parts of the Northern Hemisphere, including Japan, last January The last such unusual change in the revolution speed occurred in the spring of 1959 At the time, the speed-up was 3J thousandths of a second. The observatory said that the atmospheric pressure pattern which brought severe cold spells last January, might have caused air and sea water to shift from the equator ioward the North Pole, affecting the revolution of the earth.

Conservative Joint Post

tN.Z.P A -neuter — Copyright) LONDON April 17

The British Prime Minister •Mr Macmillan) today announced that he had appointed Lord Poole, a prominent businessman in the City of London, as joint chairman of the Conservative Party

Lord Poole, who has been chairman of the party orice before —in the middle fifties —will take up his duties nex" week, and will work with "he present chairman. Mr lain Macleod

Diamond Smuggling. Hundreds ol West Africans have been arrested in a huge security round-up aimed a' ending diamond smuggling in South Kasai in the Congo Informed sources said more than 600 mostly from Senegal and Mali, were arrested in the swooj late last week —Leopoldville. April 17.