Manx Cattery For Tourist Visits

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30364, 13 February 1964, Page 13

Manx Cattery For Tourist Visits

(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, February 11. The town council of Douglas, Isle of Man, has decided to re-site its tail-less cattery closer to the centre of the town—for the sake of the tourists.

The cattery is some miles in the country on the Manx Government experimental farm.

Many tourists have complained of spending weeks on the island without ever seeing one of the animals which made it famous.

Few people on the island keep these cats as pets. Two years ago there seemed a possibility they might become extinct so the official cattery was established to maintain the breed and improve existing stocks. RAID STOPPED The Coast Guard boarded and seized early yesterday a fast 50-foot boat with 16 armed Cuban exiles aboard. They were apparently bound for a raid against Cuba.— (Key West, Feb. 12.) E E.C. LINK Sir Alec Douglas-Home said yesterday Britain was taking “every possible step” to keep in harmony with the European Common Market and would make new studies about membership in the community if the occasion arose again.— (Ottawa, February 12.)

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Russia is now the largest soap manufacturer in the world. She produces more than Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand combined, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation. Her production has risen from 1,400.000 tons in 1958 to 1,700.000 tons in 1962. —(London, February 12.) ORE EXPORT A £6 million plan to export 20 million tons of highgrade South Australian iron ore to Japan over the next 10 to 15 years was announced today.—Adelaide, Feb. 12. ON TAPE Tape recorders are to be installed in six new courtrooms of the High Court to take over the work Of the official shorthand writers. — London, Feb. 12. GUERRILLAS The ■ Malaysian DeputyPremier, Tun Abdul Razak, said today Indonesian guerrillas found on Malaysian soil in Borneo would be disarmed and sent back across to the border to Indonesian Borneo.—Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 11.