CONCORD ACCORD

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30678, 18 February 1965, Page 20

CONCORD ACCORD

Production To Continue (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) PARIS, February 16. Britain and France have agreed to go ahead with joint construction of the Concord supersonic airline project, including the prototypes and production line, a French Transport Ministry spokesman said yesterday. “The Concord programme has now been saved,” he said. “The British and French Governments have a good lead in this field and we are determined to maintain It.” No French comment was available last night on London reports that Britain considered the 1962 BritishFrench Concord agreement did not explicitly provide for production of the airliner. But the French position has always been that the agreement covered both development of prototypes and series production. The French Transport Minister, Mr Marc Jacquet, is flying to London for talks with Britain’s Aviation Minister, Mr Roy Jenkins, on the commercial future of Concord, for which 45 orders have so far been placed.

; Rlccarton H.S. Roll.—The 1965 roll for the Rlccarton 1 High School numbered 756 ! 402 boys and 354 girls—-the ! principal (Mr A T. Gains- ’ ford) reported to a meeting ■of the school’s board of ' governors yesterday. Addi- ' tional members of Form VI were six Villa Maria College I girls who attended for in- ■ struction in senior mathei matics, physics, and > chemistry.