General News

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30619, 9 December 1964, Page 20

General News

Electra Delayed One hour’s flying time out from Sydney, a T.E.A.L. Electra bound for Christchurch yesterday developed an oil leak in one of its motors. The aircraft returned to Sydney, arriving back at 4.15 p.m. (N.Z. time). The Electra left again for New Zealand at 7.30 p.m. after the defect had been repaired, but it flew to Auckland so that a crew change could be made. It arrived at Auckland at 11.15 p.m. and left for Christchurch at midnight, arriving at Harewood at 1.40 a.m. Because of the upset to time-tables yesterday, today’s flight from Christchurch to Sydney will not depart until 6.30 p.m. Cloudv And Warm Although yesterday was cloudy and showery temperatures were relatively high. At 9 a.m. the Weather Office at Christchurch airport recorded a temperature of 55deg. This rose to 59deg from 1 p.m. to after 3 p.m. The Government Life building showed a temperature of 61deg at 4 p.m. Winds were a moderate southerly in the morning and mainly light and variable in the afternoon. Ice-Breaker’s Record The United States Navy icebreaker, Glacier, has cut a channel in McMurdo Sound through the fast ice to Hut Point in record time. By breaking through 19 miles of fast ice in 14 days she arrived at Hut Point on December 5, the earliest arrival in the history of the United States Navy Antarctic support force operations. The Glacier bettered its own record by 14 days. The icebreaker averaged 1.4 miles a day breaking through ice which reached a thickness of more than 6ft. She also completed a turning basin and mooring site.

Quick Tribute “This has been a fairly quick meeting,” said Mr D. H. Lawrence at the conclusion of the seventy-ninth annual meeting of the Christchurch sub-centre of the St. John Ambulance Association last night. “The 'act that it has been so quick reflects the satisfaction we feel with the control exercised by the chairman (Mr J. H. Skinner) over the affairs of the association,” Mr Lawrence said. The meeting lasted for less than 20 minutes and no general business was discussed. Dial A Prayer The Seventh Day Adventist dial-a-prayer service in Christchurch will have been in operation for one year on December 12, Pastor C. O. Lowe reported yesterday. He called the service “a tremendous success” and said that the rate of use in Christchurch was “the highest in the world.” More than 500,000 prayers have been dialled in Christchurch during the year of the service, Mr Lowe reported.

Cautious “I take neither credit nor blame for what he is now,” said Brigadier J. T. Burrows at the annual break-up ceremony of the Aranui High School last evening after he had recalled that he had once been a teacher of the school’s headmaster (Mr W. J. A. Brittenden).