No More Comets Being Made

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30365, 14 February 1964, Page 11

No More Comets Being Made

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, February 13. The Comet—the world’s first jet airliner—is to go out of production. Within the next two months the order will be made to run down production and complete the final two “on the line.” ■

Seventy-sevm of the Comet IV series have been built. The manufacturers, the Hawker Siddeley combine, broke even after selling the sixty-seventh. Ten airlines operate the Comet.

SERUM DOSE Mr Gaston Naessens, inventor of a serum he claims can cure leukae: ia, said yesterday that Donald Brown, the four-year-old Glasgow bov who died on Tuesday, had received only two injections of his “anablast” serum. Mr Naessens, who has been charged with illegal practice of medicine and pharmacy, said the normal • treatment was 45 injections.—Paris, February 13.

WARNING Every packet of cigarettes in Britain will be clearly marked with a warning of the health hazards arising from smoking if Mr Laurence Pavitt, a Labour member of Parliament, has his way. He was given permission in the House of Commons yesterday to introduce a private member’s bill to compel the tobacco industry to do this. — London, February 13. SYNTHETICS A forecast that by 1970 the use of synthetic fibres might exceed the volume of wool used was made by Dr. R. R. Lyne, manager of Imperial Chemical Industries market research department, when he spoke to members of the Bradford Textile Society.—London, February 13. COURAGE The courage and devotion to duty of a young police constable dying from a shotgun wound, was praised in the Coroner’s Court at Urana today. The constable, Cecil Elgar Howe, aged 32, although mortally wounded, managed to scrawl his murderer’s name in his own blood, the Court was told.—Sydney, February 13. AGREEMENT A joint Cambodian-Philip-pine declaration signed yesterday said President Macapagal’s good offices had “brought about a settlement of certain misunderstandings that had arisen between Qunbodia and the United States,” as a result of published com-

ments about the late President Kennedy.—Phnompenh, February 13. FOOD SALES A restaurateur is planning to establish a chain of carryhome cooked meal shops throughout Britain. The shops will be open 12 hours a day, seven days a week.—London, February 13. PROTEST Switzerland has protested in the strongest terms against Soviet allegations that she had not wanted to help find Yuri Nossenko, the Russian disarmament delegate who defected to the United States last week.—Geneva, February 13. TROUBLE Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s Prime Minister, said yesterday that if the borders of Malaysia are “shifted or become blurred it could be the beginning of real trouble in the world.” —(Lagos, Feb. 13.) POPULATION The population of England and' Wales is expected to increase by nearly a half to reach 63,000,000 by 2001. Births have been dropping from the start of the twentieth century from an average 810,000 in the second becade to 704,000 in the sixth! Births have begun to rise again, reaching 841.000 in 1962, the latest year for which figures are available.—(London, Feb. 13.) SWATTERS Among the onlookers when the Beatles singing group

arrived from England, were members- of a student organisation called “S.W.A.T.”— Students .War Against Trash. They were picketing the Beatles as “a musical disgrace.” Asked what they had against the Britons and their Edwardian garb, one student replied: “They have a deleterious effect on young minds.”—(New York, Feb. 13.)

Goulburn Wool.— Values for all descriptions offered at the final day of the Goulburn wool sales today were fully firm compared with the improved rates of the previous day.—Sydney, February 13.